Time & Place: Spring Semester, Monday & Wednesday, 3:55-5:15pm
CDL –109, Cook/Douglas Campus
Instructor: Ying Fan Reinfelder
Telephone: (732) 932-9800 x6212, Email: yingfan@rci.rutgers.edu
Office Hour: M&W, 2:00 – 3:00pm, Rm. 344, Env. Sci. & Natural Res. Building, Cook
Required Text:Physical Hydrology, 2nd edition, 2002, Prentice-Hall, by S. Lawrence Dingman
Structure: Lecture on Monday, Exercise on Wednesday
All exams are open-book & notes
Grading: 10 Homework Assignments ---------> 50%
Midterm Exam ------------------------> 25%
Endterm Exam ------------------------> 25%
Week Lecture
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1 Basic hydrologic concepts: watershed, mass balance, storage-flux
2 Climate and the hydrologic cycle
3 Precipitation: mechanisms and spatial-temporal patterns
4 Precipitation: observations, Case study: gauge under-catch
5 Snow and snowmelt
6 Water in soils: soil physical properties
7 Water in soils: Darcy's Law, Hydraulic Head
8 Water in soils: infiltration, Summary and review (Midterm Exam on Wednesday)
9 Spring Break
10 Exam overview, Evapotranspiration: the physics
11 Evapotranspiration: from open water, potential vs. actual
12 Evapotranspiration: from soil and vegetation
13 Groundwater: aquifers and storage
14 Rainfall-river flow
15 Groundwater–surface water connection
16 Final Exam
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