CE 424, Engineering Hydrology: John F. Quillope

CE 424, Engineering Hydrology
John F. Quillope
Overview
• Handouts
– Syllabus
– Schedule
– Student Information Sheet
– Homework 1
• Web: http://www.engineering.usu.edu/dtarb/cee3430
• Outline for today
– Review Syllabus and Schedule
– Introduce the Hydrologic Cycle and Water Balance Concepts
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Texts
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Course Learning Objective
• Upon successful completion of the course you should
be able to apply the principles of hydrology to
solve engineering hydrology design problems
involving hydrologic modeling and analysis.

Specifically (1)
• Identify and describe the processes and quantities
involved in the hydrologic cycle. (Bedient Ch 1)
• Quantify the components of the water balance of a
watershed. (Bedient, Ch 1)
• Calculate hydrologic losses due to evaporation and
infiltration. (Bedient, Ch 1)
• Calculate hydrographs based on streamflow and
precipitation measurements, watershed attributes
and unit hydrograph theory. (Bedient, Ch 2)

Specifically (2)
• Assemble the data and parameters specific to a
given problem and location. Demonstrate skill in the
selection of appropriate parameters and the ability to
evaluate the sensitivity and uncertainty in parameters
and the implication for selection of design
alternatives. (Bedient, Ch 5)
• Formulate problems and prepare inputs to use
hydrologic engineering software (computer models)
for analysis and design. Summarize and synthesize
outputs from these computer models. (Bedient, Ch 5)

Specifically (3)
• Quantify the probability associated with extreme hydrologic
events and the magnitude of hydrologic events of specified
recurrence interval and frequency. (Bedient, Ch 3)
• Identify and describe the physical factors, mechanisms and
processes involved in the transformation from rainfall to runoff.
(Tarboton module Ch 1-3)
• Quantify the hydrologic properties of water in soils (Tarboton
module Ch 4)
• Calculate infiltration and surface runoff from precipitation on a
watershed soil surface. (Tarboton module Ch 5-6)
• Quantify the flow of groundwater and evaluate the impacts of
well pumping on groundwater flow and properties. (Bedient, Ch
8)
• Design hydrologic solutions to drainage, culvert and flooding
problems. (Bedient, Ch 9)

Learning Objective for
Today
• Be able to identify and describe the processes and
quantities involved in the hydrologic cycle
• Be able to apply the concept of mass balance to
determine certain hydrologic quantities
Reading
• Preface
• Bedient Pages 1-15
Next time
• Bedient Pages 15-43

Great Salt Lake Evaporation
• The Great Salt Lake has an average inflow from
streamflow of 2316220 acre ft / year
• The area is about 1 million acres
• Average annual precipitation on the lake is about 10
inches/year
• What is the average annual evaporation ?

Water Balance
Atmospheric Water
Soil Water Surface Water
Groundwater
Change of
Inflow – Outflow =Storage
dS
I Q 
dt
Watershed delineated on a topographic map
Watershed water balance
P
P  R  G  E  T  S
E+T
Q
S
G
Streamstats
• http://water.usgs.gov/osw/streamstats/utah.html

The Hydrologic Cycle
Atmospheric Moisture
39
100 Moisture over land
Precipitation on land
61 385
P Evaporation from land Precipitation
on ocean
Snow
melt
Runoff Evap
Surface
runoff
Precipitation ET
424
Evap Evaporation
from ocean
Infiltration Streams
Groundwater Wa
t er t
Recharge ab l e
Runoff
38 Surface discharge
Groundwater flow
1 Groundwater
Lake Impervious
strata GW discharge
Reservoir
Figure 1-1 from Bedient: http://hydrology.rice.edu/bedient/

Hydrologic Science in the hierarchy from basic
sciences to water resources management
Basic Sciences
• Mathematics
• Economics • Statistics
• Law • Physics
• Fluid Mechanics
• Sociology • Chemistry
• Hydraulic
• Political • Biology
Engineering
Water Science • Meteorology Geosciences
• Engineering • Geology
Resources • Hydrologic
Hydrology • Soil Science
Management • Agriculture Science
• • Atmospheric
• Forestry • Science
• • • Ocean Science
•
• • Glaciology
• Geochemistry
Modified From: National Research Council Committee on Opportunities in –
the Hydrologic Sciences (COHS), (1991), Opportunities in the Hydrologic –
Sciences, Editor, P. S. Eagleson, National Academy Press, Washington,
D.C. –
Summary
• The engineering hydrologist must be able to calculate
or estimate various components of the hydrologic
cycle to solve hydrologic problems
– Drainage design, flood protection, water supply
• The concept of the water balance is fundamental to
much hydrologic analysis
• Become comfortable converting units and working
with “incompatible” units, it is an unfortunate fact of
life

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Soil Water Surface Water

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Figure 1-1 from Bedient: http://hydrology.rice.edu/bedient/

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