Information

• Course Information/Syllabus

• Opportunities in Hydrology - NRC/NAS Report
  
• Global Water Resources Assessment - issues, facts, figures
• UN World Water Development Report Series
  
• 2020 Water and Climate Change
• (4th edition 2012)
  
• (see Vol 2 First Chapter)
• Columbia Water Center - India water security
• Managing Climate Risk in Water Supply
  

• Hydrology: An Introduction to Hydrologic Sciences by R. L. Bras
  
• Applied Hydrology - Ven T Chow
  
• Physical Hydrology - L. Dingman
  
• Terrestrial Hydrometeorology - J. W. Shuttleworth
  
• Water Resources Systems Planning & Management - Loucks
  
• Hydrology: an Introduction by W. Brutsaert      
• Helsel's online book
• Rainfall Runoff Process Module
• Workbook
  

• Water Resources Systems Planning & Management - Loucks (Chap 11)
•  Managing Climate Water Risk - IRI course document
  

• Comet/MetEd
• NASA - Precipitation Education - Videos
  
• ENSO - Real time Monitoring - etc.
• IRI's ENSO page - excellent resources
  
• NAO   PDO
  
• AMO
  

• IOD

• NOAA-NWS-Global Weather - Jet Stream etc.
  

• Terrestrial Hydrometeorology - J. W. Shuttleworth  Chap 5
• Dingman Chapter 3 (radiation, climate, precip)
• Hartmann Chap 2
• Hydrology: an Introduction by W. Brutsaert (Chap 2)

• Hydrology: an Introduction by W. Brutsaert (Chap 2) Chaps 2, 3
• Dingman Chapter 3 (radiation, climate, precip)
• Water Vapor Equations (Dingman Appendix D)
• Chow, Chap 2 sections
• Hydrology: an Introduction by W. Brutsaert (Chap 2)
• Pseudo Adiabatic Process handout  - Prof. Tarboton

Infiltration - (R-R Module by Prof. Tarboton, USU)

• Rainfall Runoff Process Module (Chapters 4 and 5)
  
• Workbook
• Dingman Chapter 8
  
• Chow Chapter 4
• Chow Chapter 5 - Green-Ampt Runoff example
• Chow Chapter 5 - Phi-Index
• Chow Chapter 5 - SCS
  

Evapotranspiration

• Turbulent Trasnfer - heat, mass, momentum (Dingman App D)
  
• Water Vapor Equations (Dingman Appendix D)
• Evaporation - Dingman Chap7 (new book, Chapter 6)
  
• Soil Evaporation - Dingman Chap7 (new book, Chapter 6)
  
• Transpiration - Dingman Chap7 (new book, Chapter 6)
  
• PET - Dingman Chap7
• Chow Chapter 3
• Hydrology by R. L. Bras  (Chap 5)
• Hydrology: an Introduction by W. Brutsaert (Chap 3)

Snow and Snowmelt Process

• Snowpack - Dingman Chap5
• Hydrology by R. L. Bras  (Chap 6)
• Comet - Snow Hydrology Course (Dr. Don Cline) (download ppt)
• UCAR - Snow Information
• Utah Energy Balance Model (Prof. Tarboton's model)
• Snowmelt Algorithms Summary - USACE

Lecture Presentations/Material

• Week 1 - Aug 22 - Context for Hydrology, mass balance
• Course format
• Context for Hydrology
• Hydrologic Cycle - components/process
  
• Mass Balance
• Week 2 - Aug 29 - Context for Hydrology, mass balance
• Mass Balance Contd..
• Examples
• Residence time
• Reservoir sizing - Sequent Peak Algorithm, Optimal Yield
• Week 3 - Sep 6 - Error/Basic Stats/FDC
• Week 3 - Sep 8 - Aridity Index, Budyko Curves, Global Hydrology
• Week 4 - Sep 12 - Radiation - Global and point radiation balance
• Week 5 & 6 - Sep 19, Sep 26
  
• Radiation
  
• Water Vapor in Atmosphere
• Precipitable water, simple thunderstorm, P-Adiabat
  
• Precipitation measurement - spatial average
• Precipitation formation
• Week 7 - Oct 3
• Water Vapor in Atmosphere
• Precipitation types, formation
  
• Large Scale Climate
  
• global climate - circulation, ENSO teleconnections
• Week 8 - Oct 10
  
• Large Scale Climate
  
• global climate - circulation, ENSO teleconnections
• Infiltration - Water in Soil
• Basics - soil properties
• Flow equations - Poisulle's law, Darcy equation
• Week 9 - Oct 17
  
• Infiltration - Water in Soil
• Basics - soil properties
• Flow equations - Poisulle's law, Darcy equation
• Soil Moisture - suction pressure
• Week 10 - Oct 24
  
• Infiltration Models
• Richard's Equation - 1-D flow in Unsaturated Zone
  
• Infiltration models - Horton, Green-Ampt and Philip
• Computing infiltration for storms
• Week 11 - Oct 31
  
  • Evapotranspiration
  • Basics
  • Water Balance
    
  • Energy Balance
  • Mass / Aerodynamic
• Week  12 - Nov7
  
  • Evapotranspiration
  • Transpiration
  • Process
    
  • soilt-plant-atmosphere continuum
  • Canopy and atmospheric conductance
    
  • Penman-Monteith  Equation
  • Concept of PET and Reference ET
• Week  13 - Nov 15
  
  • Snow and Snowmelt
  • Snow Process
    
  • Importance, formation, measurement,
    
  • Snowmelt modeling - Energy balance and
  • Temperate based
  Week  14 - Dec 5
  • Rainfall - Runoff
  • Factors generating runoff
    
  • Catchment scale response
    
  • Engineering Methods
  • SCS and Unit Hydrograph
    
  • Examples
    

• Streamstats
• IRI Data Library
• NOAA-ESRL
• USGS-Water
• USGS R Package (dataRetrieval)
  
• NRCS-Snow
• NSIDC-National Snow and Ice Data Center - Data
• CUAHSI - HydroDesktop
  

• R project
• R Studio
• Datacamp
  
• Very Good R-tutorial - Thomas Jagger
  
  • Hurricane Data and Refs Page
    
• Catherine Dressler Report
• R-tutorial documents
• Spatial Data Visualization
• Springer R-books

•  Data Reading
• Compute basic statistics - including robust measures
• Line and boxplots - including multiple plots
• Quantile plots
• Source Functions

• Commands for IRI data library
  
• Links/steps for NOAA-CDC
  

• Grantz et al. (2005)
• Bracken et al., (2010)
• PCA + Local Polynomial - multi-model ensemble forecast
  
• Regonda et al. (2006a)
• Index gauge forecast + disaggregation
• Bracken et al. (2010)
• Colorado River Multidecadal Variability Nowak et al. (2012, J. Climate)

• Hydroclimate Project (by 12/19)
• HW1 (Due 8/12)
• HW2 (Due 10/6)
• HW3 (Due 10/28)
• HW4 (Due 11/22)
• HW5 (Due 12/12)