Introduction
Hydrology and Water Resources
Hydrology and Water Resources
RG744
Institute of Space Technology
September 25, 2013
Why this Course?
• Why interested in this Hydrology and Water
Resources?
• Students interests, background, familiarity with the
subject?
• What students expect from this course?
• How students think that this course will help in
achieving their goals?
Purpose of the Course
• To learn basics of Hydrology and Water Resources
• Introduction to Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling
(will discuss few models and their applications)
Introduction of the Course
• Course Schedule
Class:
– Day: Every Wednesday
– Time: 04:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Workshop (scheduled):
– Day: Every Friday
– Time: 04:00 PM– 07:30 PM (including namaz breaks)
Workshop (Visits outside IST):
– Students will be informed whenever there are outside
visits
• Office Hours
– Check my availability and drop-in
Course Outline
• Course Syllabus: http://arjzaidi.wordpress.com/fall-2013/
• Text Book – Course Material will be taken from Several books
Main Books:
1. Hydrology and Flood Plain Analysis by Philip B. Bedient (4th
Edition)
2. Hydrology and the Management of Watersheds (3rd Edition.
2003) by Brooks
3. Water Resources Engineering 2nd Edition by Linsley and
Franzini
4. Hydrology: H. M. Ragunath
Status
• available in Library/Course website
Theory
1. Introduction to Hydrology and Water Resources
2. Precipitation: Types, Measurements, Analyses
3. Hydrologic Losses: Infiltration, Evaporation, Evapotranspiration
4. Watershed Management : Watershed characteristics, rainfall-runoff response,
hydrograph analysis, runoff estimation (runoff models), water budget
5. Floods: frequency analysis, flood routing, flood forecasting, flood management
6. Stream Flow Measurement/Monitoring: flow measuring techniques and devices, open
channel hydraulics
7. Groundwater: Hydrology and hydraulics
8. Optimization (Linear programming): Application to hydro-systems
9. Role of RS and GIS in hydrology ( A brief discussion and sum up of course)
Workshop/Lab
Week
Date
Workshop
1
27-Sep-13 ILWIS Hands-on 1
2
4-Oct-13 ILWIS Hands-on 2
3
11-Oct-13 DEM creation, IWD - Lapse Rate, Theissen Polygon
4
18-Oct-13 Eid Break (if announced by IST)
5
25-Oct-13 Terrain Processing using Arc Hydro
6
1-Nov-13 Students Tutorials on Arc Hydro
7
8-Nov-13 HEC - HMS/GeoHMS -1
8
15-Nov-13 HEC - HMS/GeoHMS -2
9
22-Nov-13 Students Tutorials on HEC-HMS/GeoHMS
10
29-Nov-13 HEC - RAS/GeoRAS - 1
11
6-Dec-13 HEC - RAS/GeoRAS - 2
12
13-Dec-13 Students Tutorials on HEC - RAS/GeoRAS
13
20-Dec-13 Study Tour (2 labs will be counted)
14
27-Dec-13 Rapid Flood Mapping (2010 - Sindh)
15
3-Jan-13 Students Tutorials
16
10-Jan-13 Lab ?????
17
17-Jan-13 Students Tutorials
18
24-Jan-13 Final Exam
Reference Material
• Reading material will be provided in class if
required
• Name of reference books and other reference
material will be provided time to time
Term Project
• Main Project
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•
Individual projects will be assigned to students based on weekly exercises (will start
from week 3rd)
Project report due at the day of presentation
• Mini Project
– Kalabagh Dam: All good and Bads
•
Split the class into two groups
– One will be the ‘pro’ group and the other will be the ‘against’ group
– By mid semester there will be a debate between the two groups
– Each group will be given 25min to talk about their views and support them with facts
and figures (reliable references needed)
– Then there will be a question/answer session between the two groups. Audience may
also ask question
Homework/Project/Quiz/Exams
• Homework: Students will be required to do homework and
submit on the date mentioned on homework
• Workshop Assignments: Each student will be assigned an
exercise after each lab topic covered that will eventually be
converted into term project
• Quiz: Several in class Quiz (both surprise and informed)
• OHT: 2 in class OHT (approximately 1/3 of the course
coverage)
• Lab Midterm: 1 Lab midterm (decide later)
• Project Presentation: On week before Final Exam
• Final Exam: Comprehensive coverage of the course during
the last week of semester