Soil, Water and Ecosystem Sciences
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SWS 6932: Landscape Hydrology
About the Course
Landscape hydrology considers larger spatial scales (> 100 km2) and integrates surface and subsurface processes. We apply quantitative hydrologic principles and modern techniques within parsimonious model frameworks to study problems of societal relevance. Students will develop a suite of research tools to analyze coupled hydrologic and environmental changes. The course will center around two main themes:
- Characterizing “landscapes”, including not just traditional “watersheds” but also springsheds, wetlandscapes, lakesheds, airsheds, cities, and entire regions of anthropogenically modified land use and land cover (such as intensive agriculture), and
- Understanding natural stochasticity by incorporating a probabilistic approach to consider mean behavior and variability in both time and space. Observed statistical properties of hydrologic data will be related to their physical generation processes.
Credits: 3
Semesters Offered: Fall (Odd Years)
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of hydrologic principles, from either subsurface or surface hydrology coursework; familiarity with statistical concepts from at least one graduate-level statistics course.
Textbook: NA