Lecture course for graduated students
Atmospheric precipitation
- Ground-based precipitation gauges
- Radar-based precipitation measurements and data processing
- Use of the radar precipitation for runoff prediction and probabilistic calculations
Snow hydrology
- Snow survey methods
- Spatial distribution of snow over drainage basins of various scales
- Snow melt: measurements and simulation based upon the energy budget
- Snow water contents and snowmelt as climatic variables
- Use of the snow cover data in hydrological forecasting
- Applied snow hydrology (with reference to engineering and agriculture)
Evapotranspiration
- Water balance and lysimetric measurements
- Heat balance and turbulent diffusion (profile) measurements using an automatic equipment
- Empirically-based calculation schemes
- Water consumption of agricultural plants
Soil moisture, soil water properties and infiltration
- Soil moisture measurements using the neutron probe
- Soil physical properties
- Infiltration into frozen soil, impermeable layer and overland flow
- Infiltration and rainstorm flow conditions
Wetlands of the boreal forest zone
- Classification of the wetland landscapes
- Physical properties of the peat soils
- Methods for calculation of inflow with reference to design drainage
- Influence of wetlands on river runoff
Some applied problems of hydrology
- Regionalization and an optimal choice of representative river basins
- Cluster analysis and taxonomy of river basins
- Spring flood calculations and forecasting
- Evaluation of the environmental risk based upon the regional hydrology
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