CE 394K.2 Surface Water Hydrology

Spring Semester 2005

University of Texas at Austin

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 San Marcos basin (Joanna Curran) CurranSanMarcos.ppt

 

Session 5 (Tues 1 February):  Exercise 1: Energy balance Exercise: ex1.doc  ex1.htm  Data files: ex1.zip Atmospheric Circulation explanation from University of Illinois, Dept of Atmospheric Sciences  http://ess.geology.ufl.edu/ess/Notes/AtmosphericCirculation/atmosphere.html  

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 San Marcos basin  Ex2.doc  Ex2.htm  Ex2data.zip  TSWindow software

 

Session 10 (Thurs 17 February): Eddy Covariance – Dr Marcy Litvak  Slides: Litvak.ppt

 

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 5PM on Thursday March 10.

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 Venkatesh Merwade)  Slides: FlowRouting.ppt

 

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 4PM on Friday May 13 in ECJ 8.612.