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ENGINEERING HYDROLOGY ASSIGNMENT CH1- CH4

1. For a watershed with a size of 120 km2, the following data on precipitation P, evaporation E and
runoff Q are given in mm.

A. At the end of which month is the amount of water stored in the basin largest and when
is the smallest amount of water present in the catchment? What is the difference (m3)
in the amount of water stored in the basin between these two extremes?
B. In what climate (arid, humid temperate or humid tropical) do you expect this catchment
to be located?

2. The average annual discharge at the outlet of a catchment is 0.5 m3/s. The catchment is situated
in a desert area (no vegetation) and the size is 800 km2. The average annual precipitation is 200
mm/year.
A. Compute the average annual evaporation from the catchment in mm/year. In the
catchment area an irrigation project covering 10 km2 is developed.
B. After some years the average discharge at the outlet of the catchment appears to be
0.175m3/s. compute the evapotranspiration from the irrigated area in mm/year,
assuming no change in the evaporation from the rest of the catchment.

3. A tropical cyclone produces 240 mm of rainfall during a period of 5 days. The figure below gives
the percentage mass curve of this rainfall event. Plot the hyetograph using daily time intervals.
4. For the rainfall gauging stations A, B and C, which are all situated in the same climatic region,
the annual precipitation data (cm) for ten successive years are given below. The data of one
station are not reliable. Determine this station with the double-mass curve analysis.

5. In rectangular area three rain gauges A, B and C are located as shown in the figure below. The
recorded rainfall for June is as follows: Station A: 75 mm, Station B: 40 mm and Station C: 30
mm. Use the Thiessen method to compute the areal rainfall of the rectangle for the month of
June

6. For a large catchment the following data on precipitation P, free water evaporation Eo, potential
evapotranspiration Epot and actual evapotranspiration Eact are given in an arbitrarily sequence in
mm/year as follows: 40, 100, 2500 and 3000. a. Give the values for P, Eo, Epot and Eact. Explain
your answer. b. Indicate to which climate these values pertain: humid, semi-arid or arid.
7. The three data sets in the table and chart below refer to monthly evaporation values in mm/d
for a shallow lake, a deep lake and a Class A pan in the same region in The Netherlands. a Which
data set belongs to the shallow lake, which one to the deep lake and which data set represents
the pan evaporation data? Please explain. b Estimate the pan coefficient for the deep lake and
for the shallow lake.

8. Measurements in Hodeidah (Yemen, 15o N, altitude 18 m) of the global radiation results in


the following data: August 15, 1990: RS = 20.482 MJ/d/m2, n = 6.3 hours
August 16, 1990: RS= 16.758 MJ/d/m2 n = 4.2 hours
a. Compute the parameters a and b in the radiation equation Rs = (a + b n/N) RA
b. Compute the evaporation from a reservoir at Hodeidah for the month of June according to
Penman, given the following data (24 hour mean values at 2 m height):
Sunshine duration : 10.4 hours Relative humidity : 38.4 %
Air temperature : 31.0 oC Wind speed : 2.0 m/s

9. An infiltrometer is used to determine the infiltration capacity of a clay soil. The experiment
lasted 120 minutes. During the experiment water was added to maintain a constant water
level in the ring. The total volume of water added is tabulated below. The area of the ring is
600 cm2.
a. Compute for each time interval the infiltration capacity in cm/hr.
b. Plot the infiltration capacity (cm/hr) versus time (minutes).
c. Estimate the ultimate value of the infiltration capacity.

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