Introduction to the movement of water through natural and constructed environments. Storage and fluxes of water through the natural environment. Hydrologic processes, including precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, snowmelt, infiltration, subsurface flow, runoff, and streamflow. Emphasis is on measurement, data analysis, modeling, and the role of hydrologic processes in ecosystems. Technological systems associated with human use of water as a resource.
Emphasis is on engineering design and environmental impacts.
Emphasis is on the practical issues of model selection, interpretation, and calibration from limited data. Recognition of intrinsic randomness and modeling uncertainty. Introduction to probability event and decision trees. Internal combustion engines, gas compressors, power plant equipment, closed and open systems of various types. Availability and irreversibility stressed throughout.