Hydrology (10 cfu)
Teacher: Pierluigi Claps Assistant: Paola Allamano
Pre-requisites: Hydraulics, Probability and statistics
Objectives of the course:
Knowledge of meteo-climatic and hydrologic processes Capability to evaluate water resources availability in a region
Ability to identify suitable variables for the evaluation of rainstorm and flood risk Knowledge of probabilistic methods for determining design rainfall and flood events.
Expected skills:
At the end of the course the student is expected to be able to quantify the rainstorm and flood risk.
Course Programme:
Module I: Physical Hydrology - Introduction
- Physics of the Atmosphere and Meteorology - Energy balance of water vapour
- Water and soil (vertical balance) - Geomorphology of the river basins - Flood formation
Module II: Hydrologic Design
- Basic notions of probability and statistics - Design Rainfall estimation
- Design Flood estimation Laboratories and/or exercises
- Group and individual work at the computer Lab
- Solutions as hard (paper) copies assembled and presented at the final exam Lecture notes:
- Available on the "portale della didattica"
Textbooks:
- U. Maione, U. Moisello (1993), Elementi di statistica per l’idrologia, La Goliardica Pavese (Cap. 1 e 3) - U. Maione (1995), Le piene fluviali, La Goliardica Pavese
Additional readings:
- A. Strahler et al. (1996), Corso di scienze della terra, Zanichelli - D.R. Maidment (1992), Handbook of applied hydrology, Mc Graw-Hill Assessment methods:
- Mid-term (module I)
- oral exam (modulo II) + discussion of the assignments
