Hydrological Processes 1

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2009:

421-316 Engineering Hydraulics & Hydrology, 421-325 Field Data Acquisition and Analysis , 421-327 Computing for Land and Spatial Systems
or admission into a postgraduate course

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• describe and quantitatively analyse the global energy balance and water carbon cycles, and their interaction
• describe the process of evapotranspiration and perform quantitative analyses on meteorological and environmental data to compute evapotranspiration
• describe and perform quantitative analyses on precipitation processes and measurements
• describe and perform quantitative analyses on processes that control runoff and streamflow at the catchment scale
• describe and perform quantitative analyses on processes of particulate and soluable contaminant generation and transport in surface waters
• describe approaches to hydrological modelling and develop quantitive models of hydrological processes

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

This subject replaces:
421-490 Quantification of Physical Processes A
421-580 Hydrological Processes 1

Please note that this subject is co-taught to both undergraduate and postgraduate students.