EAS 345 HYDROLOGY: TOPIC OUTLINE

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TU 01 MAR
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TU 05 APR
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TU 01 MAY
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LAB TOPIC
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Hydrologic Cycle
Stream Flow
Stream Discharge
Principles of Meteorology
Contouring
Precipitation
Precipitation
Evapotranspiration and Snowmelt.
Evapotranspiration and Snowmelt.
Test I
Infiltration: Finite Difference Math
Infiltration Model
Ground Water
Ground Water: River Basin Geology
Wells and Ground Water
Wells and Ground Water.
Water Quality.
Streamflow: Rating Curves
Test II
Streamflow Hydrographs
Streamflow Hydrographs.
Streamflow Hydrographs.
SPRING RECESS
SPRING RECESS
SPRING RECESS
Hydrologic Routing.
Hydrologic Routing.
Streamflow and Hydrograph Models
Statistical Hydrology Floods.
Statistical Hydrology Floods.
Test III
Test IV

Singh pp
1-11, 22-34
80-96, 114-117
118-150
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328-350
615-624
203-219, 368-375
234-36, 242-43, 259-63
269-283
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Overview
An introductory hydrology course designed for engineers and earth and environmental scientists. The
hydrologic cycle. Precipitation, evaporation, streamflow and groundwater, with an emphasis on
runoff. Flood forecasting and flood control.
Reading Instructions
1. Read material before each class.
2. First reading should be done to get overview. Read mathematical details the second time.
3. The asterisk (*) indicates source material not in text.

Technical Information
Class Hours
Class Room
Professor
Office
Office Hours
Web Site
Reserved Text
Reserved Text
Assignments
Tests

T, Th 5:00 -6:15 PM + 2 field trips to be arranged

MR 107
Stanley Gedzelman
J 929 650-6470
Tu, Th 0800-0900 + 1100-12000 or By Appointment
www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stan . /~
Physical Hydrology, S. Lawrence Dingman, (Prentice Hall, 2002).
Elementary Hydrology, Vijay Singh, (Prentice Hall, 1992).
Exercises are started in class and completed at home.
Three hourly tests plus optional comprehensive make-up test.

The optional make up test allows you to improve your score on questions from the first three tests.
There are now many hydrology texts. Each is best for part of the course. Physical Hydrology has
the best chapters on meteorology. Elementary Hydrology is strong for hydrologic techniques.
Applied Hydrogeology has the strongest geology chapter. Fundamentals of Ground Water is
strong on ground water. Physical and Chemical Hydrogeology is strongest in water quality.
Extra Sources (Some available on Reserve in Science Library)
Meteorology Today, Ahrens, (West, 457th Edition).
A View of the River, L. Leopold (Harvard U. Press, 1994).
Hydrology and the River Environment, M. Newson, (Clarendon Press, 1994).
Applied Hydrogeology, C. Fetter, (Prentice Hall, 2001).
Hydrology for Engineers, R. K. Linsley, M. A. Kohler, and J. Paulhus, (McGraw-Hill, 1982).
Physical and Chemical Hydrogeology, P. A. Domenico and F. W. Schwartz, (Wiley, 1990).
Hydrologic Analysis and Design, R. McCuen, (Prentice Hall, 2004).
Fundamentals of Ground Water, F. W. Schwartz and H. Zhang, (Wiley, 2003).
Elements of Physical Hydrology, G. M. Hornberger, et. al., (Johns Hopkins, 1998).
Introduction to Hydrology, W. Viessman, G. L. Lewis, (Prentice Hall, 2003).
Water Resources Engineering, D. A. Chin, (Prentice Hall, 2000).

EAS 345 HYDROLOGY

EXTENDED OUTLINE
** Page numbers below are taken from Elementary Hydrology, Singh
1. The Hydrologic Cycle
Basic picture of the hydrologic cycle including storage, fluxes, and residence times.
Concepts of discharge, watershed, and drainage or catchment basin introduced.
Text Pages: 1-17, 22-34, (34-42), 47-52, 80-85.
2. Principles of Meteorology: Contouring
Basic cause of the wind and precipitation. Geographical and seasonal patterns of
global precipitation. Lag between between rainy seasons and stream discharge.
Text Pages: *, 129-150, 423-429, 486-491.
3. Precipitation
Measuring and contouring rainfall and snowfall (Introduction to ArcView). Basic
precipitation systems (thunderstorms, extratropical cyclones, and tropical cyclones).
Text Pages: *, 153-180, 187-194, 615-621.
4. Evapotranspiration and Snowmelt
Measuring evaporation. Thermodynamics of evaporation and melting. Turbulent
transport. Heuristic approach to calculating evaporation rates.
Text Pages: 118-129, 328-365, 621-635.
5. Infiltration
Introduction to soil moisture. Rainfall rates, interception, depression storage, and
infiltration. Measuring infiltration. Horton's infiltration theory (updated version) with
numerical solutions.
Text Pages: 202-223, 234-236, 242-243, 248-249, 260-263, 368-376.
6. Ground Water
Overview of groundwater in relation to aquifers, the water table, streams, springs,
marshes and wells. Porosity, Specific Yield, Field capacity, and Wilting points in soils
and rocks. Permeability and Hydraulic Conductivity of rocks and soils. Darcy's
Equation and the diffusion analog.
Text Pages: 111-117, 269-290.
6a. River Basin Geology
Erosion, Transportation and Sedimentation. Evolution of river profiles. Clogging of
reservoirs.
Text Pages: *, 699-735.
7. Wells and Ground Water.
Steady and unsteady groundwater flow. Rectangular and cylindrical coordinates.
Flow to wells. Well function and Theis Method. Boundary effects and the Method of
Images. Seawater intrusion. Text Pages:*, 290-311.

7a. Water Quality.

River and Wetland Systems. Plant and animal life. Dissolved materials. Transport,
diffusion, and remediation of pollutants through the soils.
Text Pages: *
8. Introduction to Streamflow.
Analysis of streambeds and floodplains. Measurement of stage, streamflow and
discharge. Rating curves. Manning formula. Text Pages: (85-111), 377-422.
9. Streamflow Hydrographs I.
Synthetic hydrographs. Unit hydrograph theory. Determination of storm hydrograph
for a complex event and for several streams. Impact of urbanization.
Text Pages: 439-466, 503-510, 512-528.
10. Streamflow Hydrographs II.
Determination of the unit hydrograph from a complex rain event. S-curves and
steady events. Flood forecasting. Numerical solutions.
Text Pages: 535-536, (549-566), (589-593), 595-611.
11. Hydrologic and Hydraulic Routing.
Flood waves. Orifice and Weir flow. The Storage Equation, Reservoirs, and Flood
control. Numerical solutions. Text Pages: 637-646, (646-664), 675-677.
12. Statistical Hydrology.
Probability and Return Period. Statistical distributions. Statistics of extreme events.
Gumbel distribution and its application to rare floods. Economics of hydrologic
decision making.
Text Pages: 753-774, 783-785, 790-791, 792-793, 800-822.