Hydrology for Hydropower, Basic Course

Basic hydrology, applied hydrology and computational hydrology in the context of hydropower development.
Measurement of precipitation, evaporation and river flow. Hydrological processes from precipitation to runoff. Engineering applications of hydrology: Rainfall-Runoff analysis, Flood analysis, Reservoir and river Routing.

The course covers the basics in hydrology for civil engineers. The students should learn about methods for hydrological measurements, especially river flow where they should know both theoretical and practically the most important methods. Further the students should know the Rainfall-Runoff process, precipitation processes, the calculation of runoff by various methods, graphical and numerical flood analysis and principles for river and reservoir routing.

Lectures in the classroom
Field work in rivers and catchments
Excursions to hydrological research basin
Exercies