Course: Advanced Hydrology
Lecturers: Pat Yeh
Hours: Thursday,
1:30pm-3:10pm
Venue: @ As 311 Komaba
II Campus
Note:
June 2: As313
July 21: An403
Email:
Pat YEH (patyeh@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Recommended Textbook
Brutsaert, Wilfred, 2005, “Hydrology: An
Introduction”, Cambridge Univ. Press (both Japanese and English version are
available)
Reference Textbooks:
1.
Dingman, 2002, Physical Hydrology, Prentice-Hall, Inc.
2.
Chow,
V.T., D.R. Maidment, and L.W. Mays, 1988, Applied
Hydrology, McGraw-Hill Book Company.
Evaluation:
60% Term Project
(Final Presentation
(30%), Written Report (30%))
40% Lecture Attendance
Lecture Topics and Dates:
1.
Hydrological cycle and Water Balance (Yeh) May / 12
o
Basic Definition and Terms
o
Global and Regional Hydrological Cycle and Water
Balance
o
Surface/Subsurface Hydrological Processes in a Basin
o
Global Energy Balance
2.
Infiltration (Yeh)
May / 19
o
Infiltration capacity
o
Horton’s infiltration model
o
Green-Ampt equation
o
Philip equation
1.
Unsaturated-zone Processes (Yeh) May
/ 26
o
Porosity, Soil moisture content, Relative saturation,
Field capacity, Wilting point
o
Gravity force vs. Capillary force
o
Richards Equation
2.
Runoff and River Flow (Yeh)
June / 2
o
Runoff Generation mechanisms, River flow routing
o
Unit Hydrograph and Storm hydrograph
o
Hydrograph separation and Baseflow
recession
o
Geomorphology
3.
Groundwater (Yeh)
June / 9
o
Darcy’s Law
o
Regional groundwater aquifer
o
Groundwater equation, Analytical and numerical
solutions
4.
Remote Sensing of Water Quality (Oki K.) June / 16
o
Principles of remote sensing
o
Case I water and case II Water
o
Chlorophyll, Suspended Solids
5.
Water Quality (Oki K.)
June
/ 23
o
River Basin
o
Pollution load such as nitrogen and phosphorus
o
Mapping the Potential Annual Pollution Load in the
River Basins
6.
Precipitation, Water Vapor, Cloud, Snow (Seto) June / 30
o
Cloud and Precipitation
o
Cloud microphysics
o
Statistical characteristics of precipitation rate
o
Rain gauge
7.
Remote Sensing in Hydrology (Seto) July
/ 7
o
Rain drop size distribution
o
Weather radar
o
Global precipitation maps
8.
Atmospheric circulations (Yoshimura) July /
14
o
Dynamic motion of Atmosphere; momentum equations and
Coriolis force
o
Hadley/Ferrel/Polar
circulations and Walker circulations
9.
Evapotranspiration
processes (Yoshimura) July / 21
o
Albedo and
Bowen ratio
o
Penman equation and Penman-Montieth
equation
o
Big-leaf models
10.
Isotope Hydrology (Yoshimura)
July / 28
o
Stable water isotopes and isotopic fractionation
o
Rayleigh’s Distillation Process
o
Spacio/temporal
distributions of precipitation water isotopes
11.
Final Project Presentation I (All
Lectures)
Aug / 4
12.
Final Project Presentation II (TBD, if
necessary) Aug / 11