CE 394K.2 Surface Water
Hydrology
Spring Semester 2005
Instructor: David R.
Maidment
Course Videos are viewable on the website at http://utwired.engr.utexas.edu/cms/index.cfm
Course Syllabus: syllabus.htm
Setting up your course web site: https://webspace.utexas.edu/
Term Projects: TermProj.htm Turn in Instructions: TPPapers.htm
Session 1 (Tues, 18 January): Introduction to GIS in Water Resources. Review the course curriculum, course outline. Lecture slides: lecture1.ppt Reading on Hydrologic Observatories by L. Douglas James: hydroscience.htm
Session 2 (Thurs 20 January): Fluxes, Flows, and Volumes Lecture slides: lecture2.ppt Homework 1: Hmwk1.htm Homework 1 data: 15minflow.xls Solution for Homework 1: HW1.doc Spreadsheet for solution: HW1.xls
Session 3 (Tues 25 January): Energy balance of the earth Lecture3.ppt
Session 4 (Thurs 27 January): Geomorphology and ecology of the
Session 5 (Tues 1
February): Exercise 1: Energy
balance Exercise: ex1.doc ex1.htm Data files: ex1.zip Atmospheric Circulation explanation from
Reading: Applied Hydrology, Section 3.1 – 3.2 (atmospheric circulation and water vapor).
Session 6 (Thurs 3 February): Atmospheric water Slides: AtmosphericWater.ppt Energy balance spreadsheet: Energybalance.xls
Reading: Applied Hydrology, Section 3.3 – 3.4 (rainfall and precipitation).
Session 7 (Tues 7 February): Flows and streamflow information Slides: Lecture7.ppt FlowFeb8.ppt Homework 2 Hmwk2.doc
Session 8 (Thurs 9 February): Precipitation and Evaporation Slides: Lecture8.ppt FluxInterpretation.doc
Links for computation of NARR: http://www.eservercomputing.com/ibmunix/articles/index.asp?id=288
http://www.research.ibm.com/weather/home1.html and the NOAH Land surface model: http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/gcp/noahlsm/README_2.2.htm
Session 9 (Tues 15
February): Exercise 2 – Water Balance in the
Session 10 (Thurs 17
February): Eddy Covariance – Dr
Session 11 (Tues 22 February): Soil Water Balance Slides: SoilWaterBalance.ppt
Session 12 (Thurs 24 February): NOAH Land Surface – Vegetation – Atmosphere model (Dr Liang Yang) Slides: NOAH.ppt
Session 13 (Tues Mar 1): Infiltration and soil water movement Slides: Infiltration.ppt Homework: Soilwaterbalance.htm
Data to do homework: Soilwaterdata.xls
Session 14 (Thurs Mar 3): Hydrologic observations data Paper: HydroObsDataModel.doc Hydrologic Data Sources HydroDataSources.htm Tutorial on NCDC web site NCDCdata.doc HIS Symposium agenda HISAgenda.doc
Session 15 (Tues Mar 8) and 16 (Thurs Mar 10) CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System Symposium. Agenda
Papers: Hydrologic Observations Database Neuse Digital Watershed Hydrologic Flux, Flow and Storage
Homework assignment: Make a 2-page typed summary of these papers and what you learned by attending the
Symposium. Please
turn this in to my office in ECJ 8.6 by
HIS Overview presentation slides: HISOverview.ppt
Session 16: (Tues Mar 22) Review for Midterm Exam Review12005.htm
Session 18: (Thurs Mar 24) Midterm Exam
Session 19: (Tues March 29) Flow Routing (Dr
Session 20: (Thurs Mar 31) Exercise on Flow Routing FlowRouting.doc FlowRouting.htm Data: BartonRAS.zip
Session 21: (Tues Apr 5) Groundwater Slides: Groundwater.ppt
Session 22: (Thurs Apr 7) GroundwaterFlow.ppt
Session 23: (Tues April 12) Water balance of the Edwards Aquifer (Dr Sharp) EdwardsAquifer.ppt
Session 24: (Thurs April 14) Groundwater flow exercise BartonSprings.doc BartonSprings.htm BartonSprings.zip
NCDC Daily rainfall to Arc Hydro NCDCDataDaily.doc Baseflow separation BaseFlow.doc
Session 25: (Tues April 19) Geochemistry of the Edwards Aquifer (Dr Jay Banner) Banner.pdf
Session 26: (Thurs April 21) Modeling flows in GIS Michael Goodchild Goodchild.ppt
Session 27: (Tues April 26) First session of class term papers
Session 28: (Thurs April 28) Second session of class term papers
Session 29: (Tues May 3) Third session of class term papers
Session 30: (Thurs May 5) Review and discussion of the Final Exam
Exam is due in by