Part I – Engineering Hydrology
1. Hydrologic frequency analysis (HW1)
(1) Data preparation
(2) GOF tests
- Probability plotting
- Nonparametric tests
- MRD/LMRD-based GOF tests (Brief)
(3) General equation of frequency analysis
(4) Regional frequency analysis (RFA)
2. Design storm hyetographs (HW2)
(1) Hyetograph as a random process
(2) Alternating block model
(3) Average rank model
(4) SSGM model
3. Infiltration (HW3)
(1) Horton’s infiltration model
(2) SCS CN model
(3) Green-Ampt model
(4) Groundwater mound analysis
4. Rainfall-runoff modeling (HW4)
(1) Origin of surface runoff
(2) Time of concentration
(3) Unit hydrograph (UH) and instantaneous unit hydrograph (IUH)
(4) SCS UH
- Limitation and misuse of the SCS UH
(5) Isochrones and Clark’s IUH
(6) Nash’s linear reservoir IUH
(7) WRA dimensionless UH
(8) Kinematic wave overland flow routing
5. Storage routing (HW5)
(1) Reservoir routing
- Modified Puls method
- Mass balance perspective
- Example (Dah-Poh Lake)
(2) Channel routing
6. River basin network and detention basin design
(1) Overview of design elements
(2) General design criteria
(3) Mistakes in TW-SWCA’s detention pond design criteria
(4) Stormwater management system for non-point source pollutant elimination
7. Introduction of HEC-HMS (HW6)
(1) Model overview
(2) Model as a tool for hydrological design
(3) Examples and results interpretation
Part II – Hydrological modeling and forecasting
1. Droughts (HW7)
(1) Definition of droughts
(2) Droughts as a random process
(3) Drought modeling and drought indices
2. Rainfall and flash flood forecasting (HW8)
(1) Remote sensing methods
- GMS spatial convolution approach
- QPESUM
- ECMWF ensemble forecasting
(2) Rain-burst and autoregression coupled model
(3) Model performance evaluation
Part III – Global hydrology and climate change
1. GCMs and climate change scenarios
(1) Overview of GCMs and scenarios
(2) Baseline period and projection period
(3) Uncertainties in GCM outputs
(4) Utilization of ensemble GCM projections
(5) The resolution (data support) issue
2. Bias correction and downscaling of GCM outputs (HW9)
(1) BCSD method
(2) Weather generator
(3) Stochastic storm rainfall simulation model
3. Impacts of climate change on hydrological extremes (HW10)
(1) Rainfall extremes
(2) Design rainfall depths
(3) Land surface models (Macro-scale model)