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Please note: the information in the course manual is binding.
After completing the course, students are familiar with the basic terms and major laws that describe steady-state water flow in the subsurface and at the surface. They are also knowledgeable of some aspects of atmospheric water, such as the generation of precipitation, measurement of precipitation, and the estimation of evaporation, as well as of a number of methods for estimating surface water discharges in small streams. After completing the course, students are able to calculate volume fluxes and/or volume flux densities for a number of steady-state water-flow cases.
Basic terms are hydraulic head, elevation head, pressure head, velocity head, (effective) porosity, field capacity, transmissivity, hydraulic resistance, (un)saturated hydraulic conductivity, soil moisture characteristic, pF, hysteresis, wilting point, available soil water for plants, gross precipitation, net precipitation, interception, open-water evaporation, potential evaporation, actual evaporation, interception evaporation, hydrograph separation, baseflow, quickflow, overland flow, throughflow, electrical conductivity, EC-routing, etc. Major laws are the energy equation (Bernoulli's law), the water balance equation (continuity), and the flow equation (Darcy's law or the Darcy-Buckingham equation).
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