HWR 519 Fundamentals of Surface Water Hydrology
Instructor: Peter Troch (patroch@hwr.arizona.edu)
The objective of HWR 519 is to study the hydrological processes at and immediately beneath the land surface that are responsible for the partitioning of water and energy into hydrological fluxes (infiltration, runoff, recharge, evaporation, sensible heat, ground heat) and to introduce methods to extrapolate point scale information about these processes to hillslope and catchment scales.
Class goals: The class has the following specific educational goals. By the end of the course, the student should be able to:
1. explain the different land surface hydrological processes and how they are affected by land surface conditions and states;
2. describe these hydrological processes by means of conservation equations;
3. solve (analytically as well as numerically) these conservation equations in order to quantify the hydrological fluxes;
4. synthesize the acquired knowledge into a water and energy balance model for complex terrain.
5. analyze scientific literature on surface water hydrology and discuss the approach and main conclusions of the papers with fellow hydrologists.
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