Apply Surface Water Hydrology Concepts to Real-World Problem

Name: Apply Surface Water Hydrology Concepts to Real-World Problem
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Hydrologic process - Water budget - Hydrologic cycle parameters - Stream flow measurements - Storm hydrograph

Created byWalaa Elnashar

Last updated 7/2025

English

What you'll learn

1. Fundamental Concepts: a. Learn about hydrology definitions and types.
b. Water cycle components (precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, runoff)
c. Learn about precipitation types and forms
d. Learn about evaporation definitions and types.
e. Learn about infiltration definitions.
2. Hydrological Measurements: a. Determine the hydrologic budget.
b. How to measure rainfall.
c. How to determine rainfall recurrence interval.
d. How to determine the evaporation.
e. How to determine the infiltration.
f. Learn about Horton equation.
g. Learn about the methods for runoff estimating.
h. Use infiltration index to estimate runoff.
3. Surface Water Systems: a. Learn about flood definitions and estimation.
b. Learn about stream flow definitions.
c. How to measure stream velocity and discharge.
d. Learn about hydrograph definition and components.
e. Know the different method to separate the base flow.
f. How to deduce direct hydrograph.
g. How to deduce unit hydrograph.
4. Water Management: Strategies for water conservation and resource management

Course content

4 sections • 17 lectures • 2h 9m total length

Introduction6:36
Master surface water hydrology fundamentals, including hydrology definitions, hydrological cycle, budget, rainfall and evaporation, infiltration, runoff, streamflow, hydrograph, and water management across five sections and 17 lectures.
Lecture 110:17
Explore hydrologic processes, surface water hydrology, and the hydrological cycle, including rainfall–runoff modeling, data collection, climate and biophysical data, and dew point and vapor pressure concepts.
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Lecture 24:55
Explore the hydrologic budget and water budget, defining precipitation, surface water inflow and outflow, groundwater flow, evaporation, transpiration, and infiltration to track changes in storage.
Quiz 6
Lecture 38:52
Explore precipitation formation and types, rainfall measurement and rain gauge techniques, station site selection, and computing optimum rain gauges via mean rainfall, standard deviation, and error targets.
Quiz 7
Lecture 47:33
estimate areal average rainfall using Thiessen polygon, isohedral, deconvolution, symmetric and weighted mean, asymmetric mean, and arithmetic mean methods, including area weighting from station data.
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Quiz 9
Lecture 55:47
Apply rainfall frequency analysis to estimate recurrence intervals using California and Gumbel methods, compute recurrence intervals with Hazen's approach, and determine rainfall depths for five- and ten-year intervals.
Quiz 10
Lecture 67:27
The lecture presents solved examples applying the water budget equation to compute precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, and groundwater terms, then uses polygon methods to average precipitation and estimate basin rainfall volume.
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Lecture 811:31
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Lecture 911:12
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Lecture 109:34
Estimate catchment outflow with methods: rainfall runoff coefficient, water balance, runoff percentage, infiltration index. Use w and y indices to compute net runoff and Deacon's, Wright's, Angulus formulas.
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Lecture 144:51
Explore the hydrograph, a time-based graphic of discharge at a waterway location. It covers direct runoff from surface and subsurface, baseflow from groundwater, and three baseflow separation methods.
Lecture 157:01
Derive unit hydrograph ordinates and construct direct and unit hydrographs from rainfall excess and base flow, computing runoff volume and rainfall depth for flood estimation with one-hour and four-hour storms.
Lecture 166:27
Calculate flood hydrographs using unit hydrograph concepts, rainfall excess, and base flow, then offset total hydrograph ordinates to derive the direct hydrograph.

Requirements

• BASICS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

Description

This course is best suitable for the students who find this subject as difficult, because all the complex problems are discussed in simple manner, also advanced power point presentations, animations are used so as students should understand in easiest way.

This course contains total five sections with 17 lectures, each section is having various subtopics explained.

The sections are as follows:

Section 1: Introduction to Surface Water Hydrology

This section contains much information’s about the author, course objectives and components. It contains the hydrology definition and types, water distribution on the earth, hydrological cycle and its parameter and climatic data curve.

Section 2: System Water Budget

This section contains the surface, groundwater and system hydrological budget, the parameters of water budget in details as precipitation, evaporation, infiltration and runoff, measurement of rainfall and calculation of rainfall recurrence interval, measurement of evaporation and infiltration, Horton equation and its parameters and estimation of the volume of catchment outflow by using infiltration indices.

Section 3: Stream Flow

This section contains stream flow definitions, measurement of stream flow velocity by Current Meter and Floats and measurement of the stream flow discharge by Segmentation and Weirs.

Section 4: Hydrograph

This section contains the hydrograph definition and components, the effects of basin characteristics on the flood hydrograph, how to separate the base flow to get direct hydrograph and how to deduce the unit hydrograph.

Section 5: Water Management
In this section you will know the strategies for water conservation and resource management

All sections are covered with solved examples.

By the end of this course:

You will have a solid understanding of the theory and practice of surface water hydrology.
You will be able to apply your knowledge and skills to solve real-world problems related to surface water hydrology.

So cannot wait to see you in the course, and I hope it shall give you added value.

Who this course is for:

• Civil engineering students
•All personal involved in water engineering

Apply Surface Water Hydrology Concepts to Real-World Problem

What you'll learn

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Course content

Introduction2 lectures • 17min

System water budget9 lectures • 1hr 11min

Stream Flow3 lectures • 24min

Hydrograph3 lectures • 18min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: