Hydrology EESC BC 3025
Hydrology EESC BC
3025
- Syllabus 2010
Basics
- Summary: Discussion of the
basic
physical
principles of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation,
precipitation,
runoff, stream flow, percolation, and groundwater flow), as
well as
environmentally
relevant applications based on case studies. Coverage of
contemporary
global
issues related to water resources, including pollution
control,
environmental
rehabilitation, sustainable development, and climate change.
- Prerequisites: one year
college
science or math,
EESC BC 2100 ( Climate) or permission of the instructor,
familiarity
with MS Excel or other spreadsheet software.
- Credits: 3 points.
- Hours: Tue, Thu from 2:10 to
4:00
pm,
in 530
Altschul Hall.
- Format: Lecture, assigned
readings,
demonstrations
in class, hands-on computer and wet lab activities, problem
sets (often
requiring use of the Internet, MS Excel), and one
mandatory
weekend field trip, TBA
- Grading policy: Midterm exam:
30%;
Final exam:
30%; Fieldtrip report: 10%; Homework: 30%
- Webpage: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~martins/hydro.html
- Some material on the website is
password
protected;
login: hydro
- Texbooks: Hornberger, G.M.,
Raffensberger,
J.P., Wiberg, P.L., and Eshleman, K.N. (1998) Elements of
physical
hydrology.
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 302p.
The book
contains
a CD ROM. Textbook is recommended.
- Instructor: Martin Stute,
Environmental Science,
Barnard College (martins@ldeo.columbia.edu, tel:
4-8110/95-8704)
- Students with disabilities who
will be
taking
this course and may need disability-related classroom
accomodations are
encouraged to make an appointment to see me as soon as
possible. Also,
stop by the Office of Disability Services in 7 Milbank to
register for
support services.
Outline
- Water for the world
- basic issues
- demand/supply
- trends
- The global hydrological cycle
- the global system, fluxes,
reservoirs,
and
residence
times
- evaporation, condensation,
precipitation
- regional water balances and
resources
- hydrological effects of climate
change
- Catchment hydrology:
Land-atmosphere
interactions
- precipitation
- interception
- evapotranspiration
- subsurface flow
- infiltration and soil moisture
- runoff
- goundwater flow
- Structure and properties of water
- Principles of fluid dynamics
- forces on fluids
- fluid statics/dynamics
- laminar and turbulent flow
- Open channel hydraulics
- discharge measurements using control
structures
- velocity distribution in open
channels
- Catchment hydrology: Streams,
floods
and
droughts
- hydrographs
- nature and cause of floods
- flood routing
- estimating magnitude and frequency
of
extreme events
- patterns, cycles and teleconnections
- Goundwater flow
- Darcy's law
- hydraulic head, conductivity,
permeability,
storativity,
and porosity
- water in natural formations
- steadt groundwater flow
- flow nets
- heterogeneity and anisotropy
- Groundwater transport
- advection, dispersion, adsorption,
decay
- tracer techniques
- Water in the unsaturated zone
- forces on water in the unsaturated
zone
- infiltration
- Monitoring and assessing processes
- remote sensing and hydrological
networks
- measuring precipitation,
evaporation,
evapotranspiration,
runoff, subsurface water
- Modelling hydrologic processes
- groundwater flow and transport
models
- modeling runoff
- Water quantity
- vegetation change
- desertification
- irrigation and reservoirs
- urbanization
- overexplotation of groundwater
- land drainage and channel
modification
- climate change
- case studies: Aral Sea, the 1993
Mississippi flood,
groundwater overdraft in the western US
- Water quality
- acidification of surface waters
- salinization
- major sources of pollution (SW and
GW)
- controlling water quality
- Managing water resources: Towards a
sustainable
future?
- reservoirs
- case studies: Diversion of Russian and
American rivers,
Aswan High Dam, Chinese Dams, James Bay
- desalination
- controlling demand and waste
- protecting the environment
- hydropolitics
- integrated water resources
management,
system analysis in water resources management
- case studies: Ganges-Brahmaputra
Delta,
Mekong basin, Arab
World