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DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY

CE401- Water Resources Engineering

Numerical Assignment -1
Note: Write clearly and with legibility. Over writing will be treated as a wrong
answer.
Part -I

1. The area between the isohyets of 55 cm and65 cm is 100 km 2 and between 65 cm and
75 cm is 150 km2. What will be the average depth of precipitation over the above
basin?
a. 60 cm b. 66 cm c. 62 cm d. 65 cm
2. A 6 h rainfall of 6 cm at a place was found to have a return period of 40 years. The
probability that a 6 h rainfall of this or large magnitude will occur at least once in 20
successive years is
a. 0.397 b. 0.603 c. 0.975 d. 0.025
3. A watershed has a network of five rain-gauges. Annual rainfall recorded by these
gauges for a year is
Rain-gauge 1 2 3 4 5
Annual Rainfall (cm) 50 82 73 64 105
The additional number of rain-gauges for this watershed for a 10% error in
estimation of mean aerial rainfall is:
a. 8 b. 3 c. 7 d. 2
4. An example for non-recording type rain gauge is
a. Tipping bucket b. Natural siphon c. Simon’s d. Tele metering

5. The diameter of Simon’s rain gauge catch funnel is __________

6. Imaginary lines of equal intensity of rainfall for a given return period is called as
________________

7. A method used to adjust the inconsistency of rainfall data is _______

8. Normal Annual rainfall is the average annual precipitation at any station based on
_______ years of records

9. Which of the following evaporation pans has the largest pan coefficient?
a. US Weather Bureau class A pan b. ISI Standard pan evaporimeter
c. Colorado sunken pan d. US-class A pan with sea water

10. When specific information about the density of snowfall is not available, the water
equivalent of snowfall is taken as
a. 50% b. 30% c. 10% d. 90%

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 Part II
(Write only one or two sentences, do not write more than half a page)
1. Draw a neat sketch representing rainfall, pressure and wind speed distribution in a
cyclone?

2. How will you convert the weakness of “spatial and temporal variation in water
availability” into the strength of water resource?

3. What are the parameters you need to estimate the amount of precipitate water in a
column of atmosphere?

4. What is the statistical reason behind a single maximum rainfall affecting the PMP
estimation?

5. Distinguish between a dam weir and barrage in terms of hydrology and hydraulics?

6. Why we need to use double ring infiltrometer to measure infiltration?

7. Assume that a vertical walled reservoir has an surface area of 5,00,000 m 2 and that an
inflow of 1 m3/s occurs. How many hours will it take to raise the reservoir level by 30
cm.

8. The storage in a reach of a river is 10,000 m3 at a given time. Determine the storage 1
hr later if the average inflow and outflow during the hour are 25 and 22 m 3/s
respectively

9. A storm with 20 cm precipitation produced a direct runoff of 11.6 cm. Given the time
distribution of the storm as below, estimate the Φ-index of the storm in cm/h.
Time of Start (h) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Incremental rainfall in each hour (cm) 0.8 1.8 3.6 4.6 1.0 3.4 3.8 1

10. During a storm, the hourly precipitation data observed was as follows:
Time (h) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Precipitation (mm) 1 25 20 45 30 10 0 15 10 0

Plot the Hyetograph; estimate the total rainfall in mm, and highest intensity of
rainfall.

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