Syllabus

The global hydrological cycle: the global system, fluxes, reservoirs, and residence times, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, regional water balances and resources, hydrological effects of climate change. Catchment hydrology: Land-atmosphere interactions, precipitation interception, evapotranspiration, water and energy balance, subsurface flow, infiltration and soil moisture, runoff, groundwater flow. Structure and properties of water. Principles of fluid dynamics: forces on fluids, fluid statics/dynamics, laminar and turbulent flow.
Open channel hydraulics: discharge measurements using control structures, velocity distribution in open channels. Catchment hydrology: Streams, floods and droughts, hydrographs, nature and cause of floods, flood routing, estimating magnitude and frequency of extreme events, patterns, cycles and teleconnections.
Groundwater flow: Darcy's law, hydraulic head, conductivity, permeability, storativity, and porosity, water in natural formations, flow nets, heterogeneity and anisotropy. Groundwater transport, advection, dispersion, adsorption, decay, tracer techniques. Water in the unsaturated zone: forces on water in the unsaturated zone, infiltration. Hydrological classification of water-bearing formations. Fresh and salt-water relationships in coastal and inland areas. Groundwater exploration and water pollution. Groundwater regimes in India.

To comprehend basic concepts of the water cycle and hydrology

The course serves as an introduction to the field of hydrology. It covers fundamentals such as the hydrological cycle, catchment, losses, hydrographs and hyetographs.

E.M. Shaw, K.J. Bevan, N.A. Chappell, R. Lamb, Hydrology in Practice, CRC Press

2. V. Chow, D. Maidment and L. Mays, Applied Hydrology, McGraw-Hill

I.A. Shiklomanov, World water resources at the beginning of the 21st century. UNESCO, International Hydrological Series

K.J. Bevan, Rainfall-Runoff Modelling, The Primer, Wiley-Blackwell