Physical Processes of Land-Surface Hydrology

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: None. Enforced Prerequisite: CEE 421; or graduate standing. Minimum grade requirement of “C-” for enforced prerequisite. (3 credits) Key elements of land-surface hydrology. Water in the atmosphere; dry adiabatic and pseudoadiabatic processes. Vapor turbulent transfer. Heat fluxes and surface energy budgets. Mass transfer and energy budget methods for estimating evapotranspiration. Soil physical properties; water flow in unsaturated soils; infiltration. Snow hydrology. Runoff generation. Probabilistic approaches to describing spatial variability.