I am offering two courses: Hydroclimatology (CE223) in the January semester and Open Channel Flow (CE226) in the August semester. Earlier, I co-taught Stochastic Hydrology (CE215) in (2019-2020) and (2021-2022).
CE 226 (AUG) 3:0 Open-channel Flow
Basic Concepts of Fluid Mechanics, Introduction to Open-channel Flow, Uniform Flow, Non-uniform Flow: Gradually Varied, Non-uniform Flow: Rapidly Varied, Spatially Varied Flow, Unsteady Flow, Pollutant Transport in Open Channels.
Reference books
Chow, Ven Te. Open-channel hydraulics. Vol. 1. New York: McGraw-Hill,1959.
Chaudhry, M. Hanif. Open-channel flow. Springer Science & Business Media, 2007.
Srivastava, Rajesh. Flow through open channels. Oxford Higher Education, 2008.
CE 223 (JAN) 3:0 Hydroclimatology
Introduction to Hydroclimatology; Hydroclimate temporal variation – El-Nino southern oscillation (ENSO), Global impact of ENSO, ENSO forecasting, other oscillations (NAO and PDO), Identification of ENSO-streamflow teleconnection;
Hydroclimate simulation and forecasting – Prediction versus forecasting, Uncertainty in prediction, General Circulation Models, Coupled Model Inter-comparison Projects;
Forecast verification measures; Weather forecasts and downscaling techniques; Climate information based streamflow forecasting.
Long-term water balance – Budyko’s Framework, Linear watershed model (‘abcd’ model), Data assimilation, Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF), application of EnKF on linear watershed model;
Impact of Climate change on hydroclimate variables.
Reference books
Shelton ML. Hydroclimatology: perspectives and applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2009.
Wilks DS. Statistical methods in the atmospheric sciences. Academic Press; 2011 Jun 3.
Maraun D, Widmann M. Statistical downscaling and bias correction for climate research. Cambridge University Press; 2018 Jan 18.