IDROLOGIA E TUTELA DEL TERRITORIOModule IDROLOGIA DI BACINO
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: SIMONA CONSOLIExpected Learning Outcomes
Course Structure
Teaching includes lectures and exercises. The latter are related to the preparation of a hydrological study. If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote way, the necessary changes with respect to what was previously stated may be introduced, in order to respect the program reported in the syllabus.
As a guarantee of equal opportunities and in compliance with current laws, interested students can ask for a personal interview in order to plan any compensatory and/or dispensatory measures, based on their specific needs and on teaching objectives of the discipline.
It is also possible to ask the departmental contacts of CInAP (Center for Active and Participatory Integration - Services for Disabilities and/or DSAs), in the persons of professors Giovanna Tropea Garzia and Anna De Angelis.
Required Prerequisites
Detailed Course Content
Basic elements and regulatory-institutional framework: definition of the hydrographic basin, hydrological balance. Regulatory and institutional framework for soil protection and water resources.
Main hydrological processes: genesis and classification of precipitation, soil-atmosphere interaction, runoff generation mechanisms, runoff components, elements of the hydrological balance, soil erosion and loss (hints). Measurement of hydrological variables.
Estimation of flood flows: Evaluation of flood flows referable to medium-high return times, Deterministic models for the evaluation of floods. Infiltration in unsaturated soil, SCS-Curve Number.
Classification and validation of hydrological models: models with concentrated, distributed and semi-distributed parameters; theoretical, conceptual, empirical; deterministic, probabilistic, stochastic.
Hydrological balance: definition, classification. Deficit risk. Distribution of annual outflows. Duration curves, utilization curves, regulation curves. Hydrological balance models.
Textbook Information
1. McGraw-Hill, 2013 |
Idraulica e Idrologia per le scienze agrarie, ambientali e forestali |
Vito ferro |
2. Hoepli, 2010 |
Conducibilità idraulica del suolo |
Bagarello e Iovino |
3. Edagricole Università & Formazione, 2015 |
L’acqua in agricoltura |
Marcello Mastrorilli |
4. Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente |
Dispense distribuite durante il corso |
Consoli Simona |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Students who do not pass (that is, they will have obtained a grade of less than 18/30) the test will have to sit
the oral exam (of the whole module or only part of it, depending on whether or not one of the two tests has been passed).
The written test will take place exclusively in the manner described above; all the others
exam sessions for the module will only include an oral interview.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Meaning of soil water retention;
Determination of the pluviometric probability curve;
Rational method for determining the flood discharge of a basin.