This unit provides an overview of surface and subsurface hydrology with a focus on heterogeneity and variability, multiple-flow pathways and residence times, water balance and scale issues, with a motivation towards eventual predictions of water quantity and quality. In particular, the unit focuses on the partitioning of water and energy at the land surface and illustrates the processes of precipitation, infiltration and run-off generation, groundwater flow and transport, and evapotranspiration and streamflow routing through exposition of fundamental theories combined with the analysis and interpretation of observed data. Apart from lectures, regular assignments and the use of the... -- Course Website
Instructor: Winthrop Professor Keith Smettem
