Water Resources 2 (U00470)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 8 ? Acronym : EEL-2-CVWR2

This course gives an introduction to Water Resources and provide the foundation for following courses in later years. It aims to introduce water resource systems and the hydrological cycle, and demonstrate the requirement for various forms of measurement and analysis. The module's objectives are to: outline the principal components of water resources systems, from the standpoints of water supply, flood control, and waste disposal; and to introduce the principal components of the hydrological cycle, and describe means by which various components can be measured; Basic forms of data processing and analysis are explained and presented, providing the fundamental tools for hydrological assessment and water resource system design.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Civil, (School of Engineering and Electronics, Schedule M)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 2nd year

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
08/01/2008	12:10	13:00	Lecture Theatre 1, Eng Sanderson Building	KB

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	09:00	10:50	KB
Lecture	Tuesday	12:10	13:00	KB
Laboratory	Tuesday	14:00	17:00	KB

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, the student should be able to:
- describe the major components of the hydrological cycle, and understand the interactions between them;
- discuss the global distribution of water resources and appreciate some of the potential impacts of global climatic change;
- design a raingauge network, and assess arial rainfall from a network of gauges;
- carry out basic data quality control checks for a network of raingauges;
- calculate potential open water evaporation and potential evapotranspiration from basic climatic observations by a variety of methods;
- design a flow measurement structure, and to prepare a rating curve for a natural river system;
- assess quality control streamflow measurements and water level records, and recognise shifts in rating curves;
- fit probability distributions to series of hydrological data, and assess confidence limits;
- carry out extreme value analysis; assess low flow frequencies and low flow spells;
- appreciate low flow constraint criteria and their application;
- apply rainfall prediction methods; and
- assess rainfall and runoff influences on stream water quality.