Undergraduate Course: Water Resources 2 (CIVE08011)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Engineering |
College |
College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 08 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
10 |
| Home subject area |
Civil |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
This course gives an introduction to Water Resources and provide the foundation for following courses in later years. It aims to introduce water resource systems and the hydrological cycle, and demonstrate the requirement for various forms of measurement and analysis. The module's objectives are to: outline the principal components of water resources systems, from the standpoints of water supply, flood control, and waste disposal; and to introduce the principal components of the hydrological cycle, and describe means by which various components can be measured; Basic forms of data processing and analysis are explained and presented, providing the fundamental tools for hydrological assessment and water resource system design. |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
Civil Engineering 1 (CIVE08001)
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | | 09:00 - 10:50 | | | | | King's Buildings | Laboratory | | 1-11 | | 14:00 - 17:00 | | | | | King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | | 12:10 - 13:00 | | | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Tuesday, 12:10 - 13:00, Zone: King's Buildings. Lecture Theatre 1, Daniel Rutherford Building |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student should be able to:
- describe the major components of the hydrological cycle, and understand the interactions between them;
- discuss the global distribution of water resources and appreciate some of the potential impacts of global climatic change;
- design a raingauge network, and assess arial rainfall from a network of gauges;
- carry out basic data quality control checks for a network of raingauges;
- calculate potential open water evaporation and potential evapotranspiration from basic climatic observations by a variety of methods;
- design a flow measurement structure, and to prepare a rating curve for a natural river system;
- assess quality control streamflow measurements and water level records, and recognise shifts in rating curves;
- fit probability distributions to series of hydrological data, and assess confidence limits;
- carry out extreme value analysis; assess low flow frequencies and low flow spells;
- appreciate low flow constraint criteria and their application;
- apply rainfall prediction methods; and
- assess rainfall and runoff influences on stream water quality. |
Assessment Information
Coursework = 30%
Examination = 70% |
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Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Miklas Scholz
Tel: (0131 6)50 6780
Email: M.Scholz@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Mrs Sharon Potter
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
Email: Sharon.Potter@ed.ac.uk |
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