JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Pre Requisites

Water Resources Engineering

Course Objectives

Understanding probabilities interventions of dynamics characteristic

of water

Course Outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will be able to understand methods

of Hydrology, flood frequency modeling of hydrologic etc

UNIT - I

Deterministic and Stochastic Hydrology, Need for statistical methods in hydrology, Continuous, and Discrete distributions.

UNIT - II

Moments and expectations, Parameter estimation, Probability plotting, Regional flood frequency analysis.

UNIT - III

Hypothesis Testing, linear regression, Hydrologic Time Series Analysis - Modeling of Hydrology.

UNIT - IV

Time Series - Data generation techniques, Autoregressive processes.

UNIT - V

Models for operational hydrology.

TEXTBOOKS:

• 1. Charles T. Haan, Statistical Methods in Hydrology, East West Publishers, 1998.
• 2. Jaya Rami Reddy, Stochastic Hydrology, Laxmi Publications, 1997.
• 3. Stochastic Process in Hydrology Kottegoda Prentice Hall International R16 B.TECH CIVIL ENGG.