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Catchment Modelling and Water Resources Management - CVEN4501
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisites: CVEN2501, CVEN3501.
 
 
Fee Band: 5 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

An introduction to lumped and distributed catchment runoff models; an introduction on the rationale used for model verification and validation, model development and parameter estimation; Bayesian methods for estimating model parameters; reservoir and channel routing; reservoir operation and design; wetland design and conceptual processes; introduction to stochastic generation of hydrologic time series in the context of water resources management.

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