| Course ID: | WASR 8200. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Hillslope Hydrology Seminar |
Course
Description: | Current concepts used to describe water and chemical movement on watersheds scales. Conceptual models of flow at watershed scales, saturated/unsaturated flow and transport processes, and techniques for measuring soil moisture, soil potential, and lateral surface and subsurface flow. |
| Oasis Title: | HILLSLOPE HYDROLOGY |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FORS 8120 |
| Prerequisite: | WASR(FORS) 4110/6110-4110L/6110L or FORS 4110/6110-4110/6110L or GEOL 4220/6220 or GEOG 4030/6030 or CRSS 4600/6600-4600L/6600L or permission of school |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | This is predominantly a readings class in which students will
read much of the classic literature on hillslope hydrology.
Each week, students will read several papers and write notes
about the key points and problems of each paper.
Students will also conduct field and outdoor laboratory
exercises to help illustrate principles and problems of
hillslope hydrology.
Students will be required to write a three to six page critique
and summary of a paper or a closely related set of papers on
hillslope hydrology. |
| Topical Outline: | Week 1 - Some Old Time Religion
Week 2 and 3 - Partial Area Concept, Slope Models
Week 4 - Alan Freeze: Numberical Modeling of Hillslope Flow
Processes
Week 5 and 6 - Flow in Layered Soils
Week 7 - Topographic Effects
Week 8 - Macropores
Week 9 and 10 - Old Water, New Water
Week 11 - Modeling; TOP Model; Wigmosta Model
Weeks 12 through 14 - Current Events (Various Papers from 1990
to the Present) |