Course Description

Earth Sciences 340a/b Physical Hydrology

Occurrence, movement, and behaviour of water in the hydrologic cycle. The development of quantitative representations of hydrologic processes (e.g. precipitation, evapotranspiration, runoff, infiltration and unsaturated flow, saturated flow, surface water flow). Analysis of stream response hydrographs. Statistical models for predicting flood responses and water resource management.

Prerequisites: Earth Sciences 020 or 081a/b or equivalent; plus Mathematics 030 or Applied Mathematics 026, or any two of Calculus 050a/b, 051a/b, 081a/b, Mathematics 028a/b, Linear Algebra 040a/b, Statistical Sciences 024a/b; plus one of Chemistry 020, 023, 024a/b; or permission of the Department.

2 lecture hours, 2 laboratory hours, half course.

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