Hidrologia

At the end of this course the student will have acquired knowledge, skills and competencies that allow:

1. Define a watershed and identified is physiographic characteristics;
2. Characterized the precipitation regime over a watershed;
3. Calculate the evaporation from water bodies and the potential evapotranspiration from a region;
4. Understand the infiltration, percolation and drainage process of water in the soil;
5. Estimation of runoff, peak flows and corresponding water volumes;
6. Calculate soil losses by water erosion and sediment transport by the runoff;
7. Knowledge of methods taught in the scope of the discipline, towards a theoretical and practical approach of problems and questions regarding hydrology and quantitative analysis of water resources.