HYDRAULIC RISK MITIGATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Module HYDROLOGY OF RIVER BASINS

It is expected that the students of the Basin Hydrology course, at the end of the lessons, know the characteristics of a hydrographic basin and know how to conduct a hydrological study, using GIS supports.

- Knowledge and understanding: students at the end of the course will be able to carry out a hydrological study concerning the analysis of intense rainfall and their spatialisation
- Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: students will understand the processes that regulate the water balance of a river basin and will apply their knowledge on the territory using spatial analysis tools
- Autonomy of judgment: the lessons, full of application examples, will be useful for students to self-evaluate the project work that will be assigned to them
- Communication skills: will be assessed during the oral test
- Learning ability: will be assessed through ongoing and final tests.

​Teaching includes lectures and exercises. These latter are related to the preparation of a hydrological study.

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 professor Anna De Angelis.

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.