Engineering

Hydrology
INTRODUCTION

Announcements

Textbook (both McGraw Hill publisher):

Engineering Hydrology by K. Subramanya

Applied Hydrology by Chow, Maidment and Mays

Weights Evaluation:

Two Quizes (30 min each): 20%

Mid Sem Exam (2 hours): 30%

Final Exam (3 hours): 50%

Quiz Dates and Time:

Quiz I: Saturday Aug 27, 9:00 am, L-7

Quiz II: Saturday Oct 29, 10:00 am, L-7

No Lecture on Thursday Aug 04, Makeup lecture on Saturday, Aug 20 at 10 am in L-4.

Course website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~sguha

The site will be up after add and drop is over. The site will contain, reading
assignments from text book chapters, pdf of extra materials and slides, practice
problem sets, etc.

What is the course about?

What is hydrology?

Occurrence, circulation and distribution of waters of Earth

Two approaches: Science, Applied

Why is it important?

At least one headline everyday in the newspapers around the world!

Backbone of civilization.

Two aspects: Quantity (hydrology, water resources) and Quantity

(environmental engineering)

What are you expecting to learn?

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Its about water! Lets start with the water cycle!

Components of Water Cycle

Precipitation: snow, rain, dew

Interception

Evaporation: from ocean, ground, surface water bodies,

precipitation

Transpiration

Surface Runoff

Infiltration

Groundwater

Deep Percolation

 NRC, 1991

What drives the cycle?

Driver of the Cycle

Runoff Generation

Humanity Development Library

Runoff mechanisms
Infiltration Excess overland flow

Saturation overland flow

Subsurface flow
Hydrology in Practice

Evapotranspiration

Evapotranspiration = Evaporation + Transpiration

Its the unseen water in the cycle! How important is it?

Types of Processes

Transportation Process

Precipitation

Evaporation

Transpiration

Infiltration

Runoff

Storage:

Interception

Soil moisture

Fresh water reservoirs

groundwater

Water Balance Model

Basic Water Balance:

P R G E T = S

P (Precipitation); R (Surface Runoff); G (net groundwater flow

out); E (Evaporation); T (Transpiration)

In and out of what? What area/volume, during what time

(sec, min, hr, day, week, month, year)?

What is the spatial and temporal scale?

Scales: Spatial and Temporal

Temporal scale depends on the objective of the water balance!

Global Volumetric Water Balance

Some Numbers

Turnover time of Storage Compartments

Murray, 1992