CE 483 – Surface Water Hydrology

Required textbook: Introduction to Hydrology, 5th Edition by Warren Viessman, Jr. and Gary L. Lewis (2002)

Recommended textbook: Physical Hydrology, 3rd Edition by S. Lawrence Dingman (2015)

Offered every Fall semester, graduate version as a section in CE 503

1   Lectures

  1. Syllabus review
    1. Lecture 1: Introduction to surface water hydrology
  2. Lecture 2: Hydrologic cycle, budget, and models
    1. Homework 1: Hydrologic budget
  3. Lecture 3: Precipitation
  4. Lecture 4: Intensity-duration-frequency curve
  5. Lecture 5: Example 4.4
    1. Homework 2: IDF curves
    2. StreamStats
    3. USGS streamflow data
    4. NCDC weather data
  6. Exercise 1: Watershed delineation, downloading and importing DEM
    1. TNM Download
    2. StreamStats
    3. HEC-HMS Terrain
  7. Abdullah’s HEC-HMS session (2026 CIROH Annual Science Meeting)
  8. Abdullah’s HEC-HMS session (2026 CIROH Annual Science Meeting)
  9. Lecture 6: Design storm
  10. Lecture 7: Design storm
    1. Homework 3: Design storm: Create the 100-year 24-hour design storm for the Mossman Arroyo Dam watershed (latitude 32.1788, longitude -106.6631) using Atlas 14 and the alternating block method. Use a 1-hour time step. Show me your full work. If you use any code, please copy it into your report. As a final outcome, include your final design storm hyetograph.
  11. Lecture 8: Interception and depression storage
    1. Lecture 9: Soil properties
  12. Quiz 1
  13. Lecture 10: Hydrologic modeling
  14. Proposal presentations
  15. Lecture 11: Evaporation and transpiration
    1. Homework 4: Example 6.2

2   Past materials