Watershed Hydrology

Catalog description

This course provides a conceptual and quantitative introduction to the physical fundamentals of environmental and watershed hydrology. Focus is on the hydrologic processes that determine how rainfall and snowmelt ultimately become stream flow and evapotranspiration. Topics include the basics of: stream flow analysis, water balances, thermal energy balances, climate and weather, soil physics, ecohydrology, groundwater hydrology, groundwater-surface water interactions, stream flow generation, and water quality. Incoming students are advised to be proficient in algebraic and spreadsheet analyses and to be familiar with the basics of probability analysis and descriptive statistics