Venkatesh Merwade

Downloading Climate Data from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) part of Data and Model Driven Hydrology Education:Steps
This step demonstrates how to use the National Climatic Data Center's (NCDC) web interface to get 15 minutes interval historical precipitation data for a climate station in the United States. This step is ...

Downloading Historical Instantaneous Streamflow Data from USGS part of Data and Model Driven Hydrology Education:Steps
This step demonstrates how to use the United States Geological Survey's (USGS) instantaneous data archive (IDA) interface to get 15 minutes interval historical streamflow data recorded at a USGS gauging ...

Calibrating a Rational Method Hydrograph Model for the Urban Desert Southwest USA part of Data and Model Driven Hydrology Education:Steps
This spreadsheet based stormwater hydrograph modeling module applies the widely utilized Rational Method to estimate hydrographs and flooding for urban watersheds. The specific structure of the model is based on ...

Developing a Rational Method Hydrograph Model for the Urban Desert Southwest USA part of Data and Model Driven Hydrology Education:Steps
This spreadsheet based stormwater hydrograph modeling module applies the widely utilized Rational Method to estimate hydrographs and flooding for urban watersheds. The specific structure of the model is based on ...

Venkatesh Merwade: Using Modeling Flood Hazards in CE 54200 - Hydrology at Purdue University-Main Campus part of Flood Hazards
My class included upper level undergraduate and entry level graduate students interested in learning the hydrologic cycle and its different components. After learning all the different processes starting from rainfall and ending with streamflow, this module provided a way to bring some of these topics together in a module that showed the practical implementation of these concepts to address a societal issue - flooding.