I. Introduction
Water cycle. Introduction to climatology, meteorology, and hydrometeorology. Climate models.
II. Atmospheric System. The rainfall.
Atmospheric water content. Rain gauges. Spatial variability. Radar.
III. GIS and Remote Sensing applied to Hydrology.
Geographical information system. Remote sensing. Applications in hydrology. Vegetation and
water stress indexes.
IV. Evaporation and Evapotranspiration.
Evaporation. Direct estimation. Balance equations. Evapotranspiration.
V. Infiltration and Soil Moisture
Infiltration intensity versus cumulative infiltration. Operation models. Curve Number method (CN)
of SCS. Soil moisture and non-saturated flow zone.
VI. Hydrometry
Hydrometry. Water level and runoff measurement. Stream gauges.
VII. Analysis of rainfall-runoff transformation
Analysis of hydrograph. Rational method. Derivation of Unit Hydrograph (UH). S hydrograph.
VIII. Flow routing.
Hydrological and hydraulic routing. Distributed hydrological modelling.
IX. Statistics applied to Hydrology
Probability density functions (PDFs). Cumulative density functions (CDFs). Fit goodness test.
Frequency analysis. Hydrological risk.
