Catchment Modelling and Water Resources Management - CVEN4501

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

School: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Course Outline: http://www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisites: CVEN2501, CVEN3501.

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

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.