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Title of Course

Distributed Hydrologic Modeling (NR 804)

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Credit Sructure

        L            T          P           C

        2            0           2            6

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Prerequisite, if any (for the students)

Nil

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Course Content

Spatial Hydrology – Catchment properties, hydrologic processes, interception, evaporation, unsaturated-saturated dynamics, soil moisture, runoff generation, spatial distribution of runoff response to rainfall, interbasin comparisons.

Hydrometeorology – Meteorological forcing, monsoon system, rainfall, ground based measurements, weather radars, meteorological satellites, data characteristics.

Riverbasin modeling – Principles, digital representation of topography for hydrologic applications, scale effects, tradeoffs between model resolution, accuracy and computational expense, lumped sub-basin and raster grid modeling, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) modeling, current river basin models, coupled forecasting, TIN-based Real-time Integrated Basin Simulator (TRIBS)

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Text / References

1.Beven, K.J., Rainfall runoff modeling: The primer, Wiley Chichister, UK, 2000.

2.Duan, Q., Gupta, H.V., Sorooshian, S., Rousseau, A.N., and Turcotte, R., Calibration of Watershed Models, AGU water science and application, 6, 345p, 2003.

3.Engman, E.T., and R.J, Gurney, Remote Sensing in ydrology, Chapman and Hall, London, 1991.

4.Charles Elachi, Introduction to the physics and techniques of remote sensing, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1987.

5.Wilson, J.P. and J.C. Gallaut, Terrain Analysis: Principles and applications, John Wiley, New York, 2000.

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Instructor(s) name

Dr. M. G. Srinivas

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Name of Other departments to whom the course is relevant

CESE, Civil Engineering, Earth Sciences

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Justification