Hydrology and Floodplain Analysis

1         Hydrologic Principles 

1.1         Introduction to Hydrology 

1.2         Weather Systems

1.3         Precipitation

1.4         The Hydrologic Cycle 

1.5         Simple Rainfall-Runoff 

1.6         Streamflow and the Hydrograph 

1.7         Hydrograph Analysis 

1.8         Hydrologic Measurement 

         Summary 

         Problems 

         References 

2         Hydrologic Analysis 

2.1         Watershed Concepts 

2.2         Unit Hydrograph Theory 

2.3           Synthetic Unit Hydrograph Development 

2.4         Applications of Unit Hydrographs 

2.5         Linear and Kinematic Wave Models

2.6         Hydrologic Loss¯Evaporation and ET

2.7         Hydrologic Loss¯Infiltration

2.8         Green and Ampt Infiltration Method

2.9          Snowfall and Snowmelt

         Summary 

         Problems 

         References 

3         Frequency Analysis 

3.1         Introduction 

3.2         Probability Concepts 

3.3         Random Variables and Probability Distributions 

3.4         Return Period or Recurrence Interval 

3.5         Common Probabilistic Models 

3.6         Graphical Presentation of Data 

3.7         Regional Analysis 

3.8         Related Topics 

         Summary 

         Problems 

         References 

4         Flood Routing 

4.1         Hydrologic and Hydraulic Routing 

4.2         Hydrologic River Routing 

4.3         Hydrologic Reservoir Routing 

4.4         Governing Equations for Hydraulic River Routing 

4.5         Movement of a Flood Wave 

4.6         Kinematic Wave Routing 

4.7         Hydraulic River Routing 

         Summary 

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