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Basics of Hydrology

Language of instruction angličtina, čeština
Code 546-0073
Abbreviation ZHY
Course title Basics of Hydrology
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Jitka Chromíková, Ph.D.

Summary

The course deals with the laws of water circulation in a river basin. It also includes basic knowledge of hydrology - basic concepts, meaning, development. Quantitative and qualitative parameters of watercourses. Monitoring of hydrological phenomena in watercourses: water levels, flows, sediment regime, suspended solids,ice phenomena, precipitation-runoff balance. Statistical methods for evaluation of hydrological quantities - hydrological regime of rivers.

Literature

SHAW, Elizabeth M.. Hydrology in practice. 4th ed. New York: Spon, 2011. ISBN 9780415370424.
BEDIENT, Philip B., Wayne Charles. HUBER a Baxter. E. VIEUX. Hydrology and floodplain analysis. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.c2008. ISBN 978-0131745896.

Advised literature

WARD, Andrew D., Stanley Wayne TRIMBLE, Suzette Renae BURCKHARD a J. G. LYON. Environmental hydrology. Third edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4665-8941-4 .