| Course ID: | IIS-SE>HYDZJEKS |
| Course title: | HYDROLOGICAL EXTREME PHEMOMENA |
| Semester: | 3 / Spring |
| ECTS: | 5 |
| Lectures/Classes: | 30 / 30 hours |
| Field of study: | Environmental Engineering |
| Study cycle: | 2nd cycle |
| Type of course: | optional |
| Prerequisites: | mathematics, hydrology, mathematical statistics |
| Contact person: | prof. dr hab. inż. Mirosław Wiatkowski; miroslaw.wiatkowski@upwr.edu.pl |
| Short description: | Students will gain knowledge about: 1) modelling and forecasting extreme events, 2) determining the extreme flows, 3) the issue of risk and uncertainty in hydrology practice, 4) criteria and measures of flood river, Students will gain knowledge about the methods of decreasing the effects of floods and low flows. |
| Full description: | Flood, droughts and low flows. Processes and factors influencing extreme hydrological phenomena. Climate change. The impact of climate change on the environment and water resources, and the occurrence of floods and droughts. Flood classification in Poland and the world. The causes of urban floods. Traditional and innovative flood protection. Directions and tendencies of flood protection. Utility models of the flow in open channels. Criteria and measures of river flooding. Droughts in Poland and the world. Low flow as a characteristic of hydrological drought. Directions and tendencies to reduce the effects of hydrological drought. Small retention as an element of improving water resources. Methods for calculating the catchment retention. Methods of determining maximum and minimum flows. The problem of risk and uncertainty in hydrology. Hydrodynamic models of floods and low flows. Forecasting extreme phenomena. Hydrological forecasting methods. Forecast verifiability assessment. Modeling in hydrological forecasts. |
| Bibliography: | 1. Ojha C. S. P., Berndtsson R., Bhunya P.K. Engineering hydrology. Oxford University Press, 2008, ss. 512. 2. Canfield, Ronand V.; Olsen, D. R.; Hawkins, R. H.; and Chen, T. L., "Use of Extreme Value Theory in Estimating Flood Peaks from Mixed Populations" (1980). Reports. Paper 577. 3. Ozga – Zielińska M., Brzeziński J., Ozga –Zieliński B. Applied hydrology, PWN, Warszawa 1997. 4. Rossi G., Harmancioglu N., Yevjevich V. Coping with Floods. Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V.Erice, Italy 1992. 5. Serra-Llobet A. Kondolf G. M. Schaefer K. Nicholson S. Managing Flood Risk: Innovative Approaches From Big Floodplain Rivers and Urban Streams. Springer, Cham, Switzerland. 2018. 6. Czamara W., Dubicki A., Wiatkowski M. (red.). Crisis management – floods protection (scientific issues), Uniwersytet Opolski, Opole 2008. |
| Learning outcomes: | Knowledge : The student knows and understands the causes and development of extreme hydrological phenomena; knows the scientific methods used to describe the hydrological extreme phenomena; knows methods of flood and drought forecasting; knows the methods of scientific, legal, technical and organizational activities used to alleviate the effects of floods and droughts. Skills: The student is able to describe the problem of the occurrence of extreme hydrological phenomena; is able to independently obtain the necessary information and data from appropriate sources in order to estimate an extreme hydrological phenomenon; is able to assess the risk of flood or drought by applying an appropriate hydrological model; can propose actions to mitigate the effects of floods and droughts. Competences: The student is aware of the responsibility for the economical and rational management of water resources in the event of hydrological extreme phenomena; feels the need to broaden their knowledge of their specialty. |
| Assessment methods and assessment criteria: | A student will receive a grade from four exercises and the lectures (test) |