Simulation Methods for Watershed Management

Lecturer:

Václav David (gar.), David Zumr

Tutor:

Václav David (gar.), David Zumr

Supervisor:

Department of Irrigation, Drainage and Landscape

Synopsis:

Basics of hydrology and watershed management, flood risk assessment, rainfall-runoff modelling, calculation methods of surface runoff and methods of assessment. Erosion and man's activities, reservoir sedimentation process and problems, reservoir sedimentation control, estimating site-specific erosion, the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE), sediment delivery ratios, watershed segmentation, sediment transport capacity, etc. GIS implementation. Hydrologic and erosion models for watershed.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

Content:

1.Hydrologic processes - introduction

2.Watershed management - introduction

3.Rainfall-runoff relationships, methods of assessment

4.Flood risk, flood generation

5.Soil erosion hazard, water quality impacts

6.Soil erosion evaluation, basic methods of soil erosion hazard assessment

7.Simulation models of watershed processes (surface runoff, erosion, water quality)

8.GIS introduction - softwares, methods, applications

9.GIS for potential flood risk assessment

10.GIS + USLE for sediment transport assessment

11.Individual models, applicable - ArcGIS, WMS, SMODERP, Idrisi

12.Individual models, applicable - ArcGIS, WMS, SMODERP, Idrisi

13.Individual models, applicable - ArcGIS, WMS, SMODERP, Idrisi

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Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

Study materials:

1. Singh V.P. - Computer Models of Watershed Hydrology, Water Resources Library, 1995

2. Beven K.J. - Rainfall-Runoff modelling, Wiley, 2001

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu	roomTH:B-879 David V. Zumr D. 16:00–17:50 (lecture parallel1) Thákurova 7 (FSv-budova A) B879
Fri

The course is a part of the following study plans: