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COURSE INFORMATION FOR CURRENT SEMESTER/TERM

References/Teaching Materials/
Week Lecture/Tutorial/Assignment Topic
Equipment
1 INTRODUCTION: Hydrological cycle, world water balance, water Lecture Notes
budget
2 PRECIPITATION: Measurement, types of rain gauges, rain gauge Lecture Notes
network, data presentation and analysis, average precipitation

3 EVAPOTRANSPIRATION & INFILTRATION: Measurement,
definitions, Penman equation, Horton’s Capacity curve, infiltration Lecture Notes
indices
4 GROUNDWATER: Definitions, types and properties of aquifer, Darcy Lecture Notes
law

5
GROUNDWATER ANALYSIS: Well hydraulics – pumping tests Lecture Notes

6 STREAMFLOW MEASUREMENT: River gauging, methods and Lecture Notes
analysis, streamflow calculations

7 STEAMFLOW ANALYSIS: River regimes, flow duration curve, low flow Lecture Notes
analysis.

8 Review and test Lecture Notes

9 PROBABILITY STUDIES: Frequency analysis, return period, Gumbel Lecture Notes
and Log-Pearson methods
HYDROGRAPH: Regional streamflow analysis, urban and rural
10
catchments, hydrologic design concepts, hydraulic fundamentals, Lecture Notes
design rainfall
11 HYDROGRAPH ANALYSIS: Hydrograph components, separation Lecture Notes
techniques, storm hydrograph, DRH

12 Unit Hydrograph: UH, Development of UH, application of UH, S - Lecture Notes
hydrograph

13 URBAN HYDROLOGY & MALAYSIAN APPLICATION: Lecture Notes
Reservoir (Level pool method) and river routing.
14 URBAN HYDROLOGY & MALAYSIAN APPLICATION: Runoff Lecture Notes
estimation, rational method, hydrograph approach

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