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Course Name	Turkish	Fiziksel Hidroloji
	English	Physical Hydrology
Course Code	YSB 526E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Ömer Yetemen
Course Objectives		1. To gain a qualitative and quantitative understanding of concepts and physical principles governing the occurrence, distribution, and movement of water in the Earth's atmosphere and the land surface layer 2. To gain a qualitative and quantitative understanding of how the occurrence of water in a watershed could be affected by a changing climate
Course Description		This course provides comprehensive treatment of modern conceptual and methodological approaches to hydrological science and the hydrologic cycle, with emphasis on atmospheric and surface hydrologic processes. Because of the pivotal role that water plays in supporting life on earth, it is of interest to a diverse number of disciplines including climatology, biology, meteorology, chemistry, engineering and hydrogeology. Physical hydrology shares several concepts and approaches in common with these fields but maintains a clearly distinctive focus that sets it apart from the other disciplines.
Course Outcomes		M.Sc. students who take this course gain knowledge, skills and proficiency in the following subjects 1. Learn the physical properties of water 2. Learn the basics concepts of hydrology 3. Learn the global water cycle and the role of the general circulation in this cycle 4. Learn the precipitation types and formation mechanisms of them 5. Prepare the intensity-duration-frequency curves 6. Learn the infiltration process and its modeling 7. Calculate the evaporation from water surfaces and transpiration from plants 8. Perform the rainfall-runoff modeling for small watersheds
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Textbook		Physical Hydrology, 2nd edition, S.L. Dingman, 2002, Prentice-Hall
Other References		1. Handbook of Hydrology, D. Maidment (ed.), 1993, McGraw-Hill 2. Applied Hydrology, V.T. Chow, D.R. Maidment, and L.W. Mays, 1988, McGraw-Hill 3. Hidroloji, M. Bayazıt, 1999, İTÜ İnşaat Fakültesi Matbaası

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