MTO 222 - Hydrology

Course Objectives

1. To give students elementary knowledge on the hydrological sciences.
2. To give students an understanding on the precipitation process and the movement of water in the hydrologic cycle as well as the solution of the water related problems by the meteorologists.
3. To provide a basis for students to understand the water related events.

Course Description

Water and environmental relations. Water divide and collection points and lines. Watershed and its geomorphologic properties. Snow hydrology. Water cycle and components. Fundamental basic balance equation in hydrology. Evaporation, transpiration and evapotranspiration calculation methods. Precipitation-surface flow relations. Discharge and continuity curves. Rational method and flood calculations. Hydrograph theory and calculation methods. Various empirical calculation methods in hydrology.