Advanced Hydrology PDF
Advanced Hydrology PDF
Advanced Hydrology PDF
(BEG 469AD)
(Elective)
Teaching Examination Scheme Total
Schedule Marks
Hours/Week
Final Internal Assessments
3 2 0 3 80 -- -- 20 -- 100
Course objective:
The objective of this course is to gain the knowledge of atmospheric hydrology, hydrologic process,
surface run-off, sub-surface flow and unit hydrograph. It gives the knowledge of run-off characteristics
of watershed and it’s an analysis
Course Content:
1.0 Introduction(3hrs)
1.1 Hydrologic cycle ware budget equation, world water quantities, residence time, systemconcepts,
transfer function operators, hydrologic model classification
2.0 Hydrologic Process (3hrs)
2.1 Reynolds transport theorem, continuity equation, momentum equation, energy equation,discrete
time continuity
3.0 Atmospheric hydrology (8hrs)
3.1 Atmospheric circulation, Water vapor, formation of rainfall, types and forms of precipitation,
Monsooncharacteristics in Nepal, rainfall measurement, density and adequacy of rain gauges,
moving measurement of discharge
3.2 Thunderstorm, cell model, IDF Relationships, spatial averaging methods of rainfall,
moving average method
3.3 Factors affecting evaporation, estimation and measurement of evaporation, energy balance
method, Penman method, Blaney –cridle method, Thronthwait method, Radiation method
4.0 Sub-surface water (7hrs)
4.1 Spoil moisture, porosity, saturated and unsaturated flow, Richarrd`s equation,
infiltration, Horton`s Philips and green Ampt methods, Ponding time concept
5.0 Surface water: (7hrs)
5.1 Catchment storage concept, Hortonian and saturation overland flow, stream
flow hydrographs, base-flow separation.
5.2 Phi-index, ERH & DRH, algorithm for abstraction using Green-Ampt equation,
SCS method, overland and channel flow modeling, time area concepts, and
stream networks
6.0 Unit Hydrograph: (9hrs)
6.1General hydrologic system model, response functions of a linear hydrologic systems and
their inter-relationships, convolution equation; definition and limitations of a UH;
6.2UH derivation from single and complex storms: UH optimization using regression.
Matrix, and LP methods;
6.3 Synthetic unit hydrograph, S-Curve, IUH, Clerk model
7.0 Hydrologic Statistics: (8hrs)
7.1Probability concepts, random variables, laws of probability, PDFs & CDFs;
7.2Normal and Binomial distributions; Statistical parameters: expected value, variance,
skewness, and peakedness;
7.3Fitting of a probability distribution, methods of moments and maximumlikelihood: Testing
the goodness of fit, Chi-square test;
7.4Frequency analysis: return period, probability plotting, extreme valuedistributions,
Frequency, factors, Log-Pearson distribution, confidence limits
Reference