Hydrology (Part 1) - Precipitation
This online engineering PDH course reviews the hydrological cycle, watershed characteristics, precipitation, and the rainfall or runoff process.
An understanding of hydrology is important for many civil engineering, environmental engineering, and geotechnical related projects. A good starting point is review of the hydrological cycle, watershed characteristics, precipitation, and the rainfall/runoff process, which are included in this course as the first part of the "Hydrology Review Series". These topics provide a start on the review of hydrology and preparation for studying more advanced areas of hydrology.
This 4 PDH online course is intended for hydrologists, civil engineers, hydraulic engineers, highway engineers, geotechnical engineers and environmental engineers.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Be familiar with the processes by which water is transported and converted from one form to another in the hydrological cycle
- Be familiar with watershed characteristics and the way that they affect runoff from the watershed in response to precipitation
- Be able to determine probability of occurrence in a single year for storm of given return period and vice versa.
- Be able to obtain values for the Manning roughness coefficient for overland and sheet flow for various specified ground covers.
- Be able to obtain values for the intercept coefficient for use in the velocity vs slope equation for specified type of flow and ground cover.
- Be able to estimate velocity for overland flow using the velocity slope equation
- Be able to estimate velocity for pipe and channel flow using the Manning equation
- Be able to calculate time of concentration by the velocity method
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review Chapters 1 and 2 of the "Highway Design Series No. 2", Second Edition published by U.S DOT in October 2002.
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