Textbooks:
R. Lee, Forest hydrology, Columbia Univ. Press., New York.
Moodle e-learning platform, University of Florence: educational material of lectures prepared by P. Trucchi
Learning Objectives
Knowledge acquired: Water cycle and hydrological processes, hydraulics, soil hydrology and techniques for water controll and management.
Competence acquired: see the above point
Skills acquired (at the end of the course): How to calculate runoff, peak rainfall statistical parameters, snow melting, interception, crop and forest water uptake, hydrological soil characteristics. Systems for water management and regulation in agriculture and forested areas.
Prerequisites
Courses recommended: Mathematics
Teaching Methods
Total hours of the course (including the time spent in attending lectures, seminars, private study, examinations, etc): 150
Hours reserved to private study and other indivual formative activities: 105
Contact hours for: Lectures (hours): 45
Contact hours for: Laboratory-field/practice (hours): 15
Further information
Frequency of lectures is not compulsory but strongly recommended. Written exercises are given to the students during the course.
Type of Assessment
oral examination
Course program
Water resources on the planet, Water balance and cycle. Precipitation: Pluviometers, Daily, mounhly, seasonal and annual rainfall, Rainfall regimes, Rainfall extremes, Gumbel distribution. Rainfall interception. Watershed and its characteristics, time of concentration. Soil-water relationships, infiltration, surface runoff and runoff processes (CN-USSCS method); Stream flow hydrograph and peak discharges. Evapotranspiration. Crop water requirements and consumptions. Filtration (Darcy), Hydrogeology: water table and wells, Water pumping. Snow hydrology, snow metamorphism.