Stationary and nonstationary behavior part of Data and Model Driven Hydrology Education:Steps
Stationarity and nonstationarity are terms you may have encountered previously if you've taken water or climate related courses and are important for understanding changes in the Earth System. But what do ...

Rational Method part of Data and Model Driven Hydrology Education:Units
Abstract This unit applies a spreadsheet, based on the storm water hydrograph modeling module, that applies the widely utilized Rational Method to estimate hydrographs and flooding for urban watersheds. The ...

Derivation and Application of Unit Hydrograph part of Data and Model Driven Hydrology Education:Units
Introduction The objective of this lesson is to introduce students to the concept of unit hydrograph by allowing them to create the necessary data to develop a unit hydrograph and then apply it to a storm event to ...

Downloading NCDC Climate Data from Internet into a Text File part of Data and Model Driven Hydrology Education:Steps
Purpose The purpose of this exercise to demonstrate the steps involved in downloading climate (precipitation and temperature) data from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The lesson is developed by using a ...

Creating a Time Series Plot in Excel part of Data and Model Driven Hydrology Education:Steps
Purpose The purpose of this module is to demonstrate how to create a time-series plot using MS Excel. The module is developed by using USGS streamflow data as an example, but the same process can be followed for ...

Introduction to Flood Frequency Analysis part of Data and Model Driven Hydrology Education:Steps
The objective of this step is to familiarize students with the concept of flood frequency analysis. After reading the information provided in this step, the students will be able to understand the importance of ...

Flood Frequency Analysis using RWater part of Data and Model Driven Hydrology Education:Steps
Flood Frequency Analysis involves large amount of calculation and data processing, requiring significant level of understanding of the process and expertise. This module introduces RWater - an interactive online ...

Plotting the Flood Frequency Curve using Gumbel Distribution part of Data and Model Driven Hydrology Education:Steps
The objective of this step is to make the students familiar with the concept of flood frequency analysis. This step assumes that the user already has information on the peak streamflow data for a USGS gauge ...

Downloading Annual Peak Streamflow Data from USGS part of Data and Model Driven Hydrology Education:Steps
This step demonstrates how to download the United States Geological Survey's (USGS) annual peak streamflow data recorded at a USGS gauging station in the United States. In this step, the students will use the ...

Visualization of rainfall-runoff time series data part of Data and Model Driven Hydrology Education:Steps
In this step, students will perform basic time series plotting using tools of choice, such as Excel, MATLAB or R.