Dr. Martin Hendriks
Part 1: Introduction
1.1. Major water types
1.2. Hydrological cycle
1.3. Drainage basin hydrological processes
1.4. Water balance
Part 2: Atmospheric water
2.1. Cloud formation
2.2. Generation of precipitation
2.3. Precipitation types
2.4.
Measuring precipitation
2.5. Areal precipitation
2.6. Evaporation types and measurement
2.7. Estimating evaporation: Penman-Monteith
Part 3: Groundwater
3.1. Misconceptions
3.2. Drilling a hole
3.3. Bernoulli to the aid
3.4. Aqui
3.5. Effective infiltration
velocity and infiltration rate
3.6. The soil as a wet sponge
3.7. Brothers in science: Darcy and Ohm
3.8. Refracting the water
3.9. Keep it simple and confined
3.10. Continuity and its consequences
3.11. Going Dutch
3.12. Flow nets
3.13. Groundwater flow regimes and
systems
3.14. Fresh and saline: Ghijben-Herzberg
3.15. Groundwater hydraulics
Part 4: Soil water
4.1. Negative water pressures
4.2. Determining the total potential
4.3. The soil as dry filter paper or a wet sponge
4.4. The soil moisture characteristic
4.5.
Drying and wetting: hysteresis
4.6. Unsaturated water flow
4.7. Moving up: capillary rise and evaporation
4.8. Moving down: infiltration and percolation
4.9. Preferential flow
Part 5: Surface water
5.1. Bernoulli revisited
5.2. Measuring stage, water velocity and
discharge
5.3. Hydrograph analysis
5.4. Conceptual rainfall-runoff models
5.5. Variable source area hydrology
A Alternative hydrological terms
B Boxes inventory
C Conceptual Toolkit
D Answers to the exercises
E Mathematics Toolboxes
Martin Hendriks is Associate Professor of Physical Hydrology at Utrecht University, where he teaches hydrology and physical geography at all levels, and co-ordinates their MSc programme in Physical Geography and Hydrology.
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