Introduction to Hydrology-E2
| Numbering Code | U-LAS15 20010 LE58 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ First semester |
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| Number of Credits | 2 | Course Type | Lecture |
| Target Year | Mainly 1st & 2nd year students | Target Student | For science students |
| Language | English | Day/Period | Tue.4 |
| Instructor name | Sameh Kantoush (Disaster Prevention Research Institute Associate Professor) | ||
| Outline and Purpose of the Course | The aim of this course is to build basic understandings to study utilization of natural resources and natural disasters in the earth. This lecture explains water availability in the earth, basic hydrological phenomena to create water circulation and water budget. Based on this basic knowledge, all students will study current technical issues to be solved, and create basis for mutual international understandings by comparing Japan and foreign countries case studies. | ||
| Course Goals |
The goals are to develop an understanding of how hydrology and hydrological applications can be used to secure water for people, based on a sound scientific understanding of hydrologic and hydraulic processes. This includes protection from excess water and from water shortage, as well as providing sufficient water for a sustainable environment. Course Outcomes: By the end of this course students will: • Be aware of water resources issues in Japan and global scale • Be able to qualitatively and quantitatively describe the main processes in the hydrologic cycle, and surface and ground water hydrology • Be able to analyze hydrographs • To perform hydrologic river and reservoir routing • Understand measurement of streamflow. PRACTICAL SKILLS: On completion of this course students should be able to: - Calculate the water budget of a watershed; - Calculate average precipitation streamflow and stage-discharge relationship; - Calculate infiltration employing several models; - Estimate evaporation rates and evapotranspiration; - Define the relationship between rainfall and hydrograph analysis; - Measure the flow discharge and velocity in the stream |
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| Schedule and Contents |
Week 1: Introduction: Hydrological Cycle and Processes Week 2: Water Budget and cloud formation Week 3: Precipitations Forms, Types, and Measurements Week 4: Rainfall statistics: Areal Precipitation& Data Analysis Week 5: Runoff and Hydrographs: Measuring Surface Runoff River Week 6: Evaporation: Process, Measurement, and Estimation Week 7: Infiltration: Process, Measurement, and Estimation Week 8-9: Semester Project Presentations Week10-11: Groundwater Hydrology Week12-14: Flooding: Monitoring, Prediction, and Mitigation Week15-16: Feedback |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy | The student will be assessed in the course based on assignments, quizzes during regular lectures, reports, in-class assessment and active participation (40%), and semester project report and presentation (60%). | ||
| Course Requirements | None | ||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | The instructor will provide additional materials, solved examples, and model answers for assignments. | ||
