Hydrology
Hydrology is a science concerned with the properties of the Earth's water, especially its movement in relation to land.
The science of hydrology is also being applied to astronomical objects that contain water in various forms. For students interested in off-world water, several lectures have been included.
More appropriately, hydrology directly applied to the Earth may be called geohydrology.
Content summary
editHydrology is the study of the water cycle. Natural and man-made processes guide water in its varied forms to a variety of ends. Use as irrigation, drinking water and process water by man is very common.
Def. "hydrology as used in the processing of radioactive materials"[1] is called radiohydrology.
Def. the "study of the ecological processes associated with hydrology"[2] is called ecohydrology.
Def. "the science that uses dendrochronology to investigate and reconstruct hydrologic processes, such as river flow and past lake levels"[3] is called dendrohydrology.
Theoretical hydrology
editDef. the "science of the properties, distribution, and effects of water on a planet's surface, in the soil and underlying rocks, and in the atmosphere"[4] is called hydrology.
Learning Materials
editLectures
editChemical hydrology
editGlaciology
edit- Ices
- Black ices
- Brittle ices
- Sea ices
- Drift ices
- Ice sheets
- Glaciers
- Glaciology
- Classification of glaciers
- Alpine glaciers
- Maritime glaciers
- Tidewater glaciers
- Piedmont glaciers
- Polar glaciers
- Rock glaciers
- Tributary glaciers
- Valley glaciers
- Outlet glaciers
- Isolated glaciers
- Crater glaciers
- Cirque glaciers
- Hanging glaciers
- Surging glaciers
- Temperate glaciers
- Ice streams
- Ogives
- Dirt cones
- Astroglaciology
- Ice cores
Paleohydrology
edit- Huronian ice age
- Cryogenian ice age
- Andean-Saharan ice age
- Karoo Ice Age
- Holarctic-Antarctic Ice Age
- Little Ice Age
Physics
editMeteorology
editEcohydrology
editTexts
edit- Water Resources Directory/Education
- Water Resources Directory/USA/Education
- Applied Ecology/Wetland Engineering
- Georgia Water/Best Practices/Simulation
- Georgia Water/External Links/Education
- Basic Geography
Hydrology Lessons
editDiffusion
editFor a source contaminant concentration entering a flow of velocity at a distance upstream from a point, the downstream concentration at that point is determined by the ratio...
Where... is the local dispersion coefficient determined by
and where friction velocity is
Velocity Distribution in an Open Channel (River)
editVelocity distribution within a river follows a standard velocity profile for a confined space (pipe-flow)with the exception that the vertical distribution is truncated at the surface due to reduced friction with atmospheric gases versus the high friction against riverbed materials.
Boundary Layer thickness, also known as the displacement thickness, is defined by:
where is the average velocity and is the velocity distribution in a channel of uniform depth .
So in the case of this river, where the current is always normal to the cross-sectional area of the river (idealized)...
Assignments
editActivities:
editReadings:
edit- ...
Study guide:
edit- Physical Properties of the Oceans
- Wikipedia article:Temperature
- Wikipedia article:Density
See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ SemperBlotto (7 December 2006). radiohydrology. San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/radiohydrology. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
- ↑ SemperBlotto (28 February 2009). ecohydrology. San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ecohydrology. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
- ↑ SemperBlotto (25 October 2005). dendrohydrology. San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dendrohydrology. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
- ↑ SemperBlotto (27 February 2005). hydrology. San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hydrology. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
External links
editAdditional helpful readings include:
- MIT OCW - Transport Processes in the Environment course
- MIT OCW - Groundwater Hydrology course
- MIT OCW - Chemicals in the Environment: Fate and Transport course
- MIT OCW - Water Resource Systems course
- MIT OCW - Aquatic Chemistry course
- MIT OCW - Water and Sanitation Infrastructure in Developing Countries course
- MIT OCW - Environmental Microbiology course