CIV E 634 Surface-water Hydrology --- Fall 2018 --- Syllabus
A. Water Balance
(2 weeks)
A01. Ponce, V. M., and the Late A. B. Palaniappan. 1993-2014. Facets of hydrology.
A02. Ponce, V. M. 2010. Factors affecting precipitation.
A03. Ponce, V. M. 2010. Water balance figures.
A04. Ponce, V. M. 201. L'vovich's water balance.
A05. Ponce, V. M., and A. V. Shetty. 1995. A conceptual model of catchment water balance:  1. Formulation and Calibration.
A06. Ponce, V. M., and A. V. Shetty. 1995. A conceptual model of catchment water balance:  2. Application to runoff and baseflow modeling.
A07. Ponce, V. M. 2018. Why is the cybernetic hydrologic balance better suited for yield hydrology than the conventional approach?
A08. Ponce, V. M. 2018. How much water could be pumped from an aquifer and still remain sustainable?
A09. Ponce, V. M. 2010. Catchment wetting and water balance.
A10. Ponce, V. M. 2010. Water balance using catchment wetting.
A11. Ponce, V. M. 2010. Water balance to determine groundwater recharge coefficient.
A12. Penman, H. L. 1970. The water cycle.
A13. Ponce, V. M. 1992. Letter to South American Explorer.
B. Evapotranspiration
(1 week)
B01. Ponce, V. M. 2014. Evaporation and evapotranspiration.
B02. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Evaporation. (Video)
B03. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Evapotranspiration. (Video)
B04. Ponce, V. M. 2014. The Penman-Montieth method.
B05. Ponce, V. M. 2007. Penman calculator.
B06. Ponce, V. M. 2014. The psychrometric constant.
B07. Ponce, V. M. 2007. Thornthwaite calculator.
B08. Ponce, V. M. 2007. Penman-Montieth calculator.
B09. Ponce, V. M. 2009. Penman-Montieth calculator for ecosystems.
B10. Aguilar, R. D., and V. M. Ponce, 2013. Evapotranspiration using the Shuttleworth-Wallace method.
B11. Aguilar, R. D., and V, M. Ponce. 2013. Shuttleworth-Wallace calculator.
C. Infiltration
(1 week)
C01. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Hydrologic Abstractions. (Video)
C02. Ponce, V. M. and R. H. Hawkins. 1996. Runoff curve number: Has it reached maturity?
C03. Several authors. 1997. Discussion to Runoff curve number: Has it reached maturity?
C04. Ponce, V. M. and R. H. Hawkins. 1997. Closure to Runoff curve number: Has it reached maturity?
C05. Ponce, V. M. 1996. Notes of my conversation with Vic Mockus.  In NRCS website.
C06. Rezaeianzadeh, Mehdi. 2017. Paper on curve number 01 (Draft).
C07. Rezaeianzadeh, Mehdi. 2017. Paper on curve number 02 (Draft).
C08. Ponce, V. M., and L. Magallon. 2015. Initial abstraction revisited..
C09. Ponce, V. M. 1996. Hydrologists of the third kind.
D. Overland flow
(1 week)
D01. Ponce, V. M. 2011. The catchment. (Video)
D02. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Runoff. (Video)
D03. Ponce, V. M., O. I. Cordero-Brana, and S. Y. Hasenin. 1997. Generalized conceptual modeling of dimensionless overland flow hydrographs.
D04. Ponce, V. M. 2014. Calculation of conceptual dimensionless overland flow hydrographs.
D05. Papadakis, C. N., and M. N. Kazan. 1987. Time of concentration in small rural watersheds.
D06. Ponce, V. M., and A. C. Klabunde. 1999. Parking lot storage modeling using diffusion waves.
D07. Aguilar, R. D., 2014. Diffusion wave modeling of catchment dynamics using online calculation.
D08. Aguilar, R. D., and V. M. Ponce. 2014. Overland flow using the diffusion wave method.
E. Hydroclimatology
(2 weeks)
E01. Ponce, V. M., A. K. Lohani, and P. T. Huston. 1997. Surface albedo and water resources: Hydroclimatological impact of human activities.
E02. Ponce, V. M., A. K. Lohani, and P. T. Huston. 1997. Budyko's hydroclimatological model of a coupled land surface-atmosphere system.
E03. Ponce, V. M. 2003. The Sahel, Africa.
E04. Ponce, V. M. 2003. Advective precipitation.
E05. Ponce, V. M. 2010. Is vegetation paying its own way?
E06. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Is vegetation paying its own way? (Video)
E07. Ponce, V. M. 1995. The ARS lab in Tucson.
E08. Ponce, V. M. 2009. The untimely drought.
E09. Ponce, V. M., and A. V. Shetty. 2009. The facts about El Niño.
E10. Ponce, V. M. 2007. Q & A on the return period to be used for design.
E11. ASCE. 2007. The ASCE Hurricane Katrina External Review Panel Report.
E12. ASCE. 2007. Quote from the ASCE Hurricane Katrina External Review Panel Report (page 73).
E13. Ponce, V. M. 2007. The ford-bridge:  Sustainable river crossings in arid regions.
E14. Ponce, V. M. 2013. The ford-bridge. (Video)
E15. Hoover, L. 2005. Mohave river flood of March 2005.
E16. Ponce, V. M., R. P. Pandey, and S. Ercan. 2008. Characterization of drought across climatic spectrum.
E17. Ponce, V. M., R. P. Pandey, and S. Ercan. 2008. A conceptual model of drought characterization across the climatic spectrum.
E18. Shetty, A. V., A. Taher-Shamsi, V. M. Ponce, and R. Garcia-Cueto. 2002. Drought characterization in the Ojos Negros region, Baja California, Mexico.
E19. Ponce, V. M. 1995. Management of floods and droughts in the semiarid Brazilian Northeast: The case for conservation.
E20. Ponce, V. M. 2014. The 800-mm isohyet: Health and hope.
E21. Ponce, V. M. 2014. The 800-mm isohyet: Health and hope. (Video)
E22. Ponce, V. M. 2004. Drought, in Three issues of sustainable management in the Ojos Negros valley, Baja California, Mexico.
F. Baseflow augmentation
(1 week)
F01. Ponce, V. M., and D. S. Lindquist. 1990. Management of baseflow augmentation: A review.
F02. Ponce, V. M. 1989. Baseflow augmentation by streambank storage: Literature review and annotated bibliography.
F03. Ponce, V. M. 2004. Camp Creek 15-yr assessment.
F04. Ponce, V. M. 2004. Severance reservoir 15-yr assessment.
F05. Ponce, V. M. 2007. Red Clover Creek: Past and Present.
F06. Ponce, V. M. 2007. The Story of Red Clover Creek, Plumas County, California.
F07. Ponce, V. M. et al.. 2013. Regional aquifer parameters using baseflow recession.
F08. Ponce, V. M. 2014. Surface-subsurface flow interaction.
F09. Ponce, V. M., et al. 2014. Effect of groundwater pumping on the health of arid vegetative ecosystems.
Week 9:  Midterm Exam
G. Catchment routing
(3 weeks)
G01. Ponce, V. M. 2014. The Pfasfstetter coding system for watershed identification.
G02. Ponce, V. M. 2010. The source of the Missouri river.
G03. Ponce, V. M. 2014. Runoff diffusion reexamined.
G04. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Synthetic unit hydrographs explained.
G05. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Time-area method.
G06. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Time-area method. (Video)
G07. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Time-area method calculator.
G08. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Cascade of linear reservoirs.
G09. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Cascade of linear reservoirs. (Video)
G10. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Cascade of linear reservoirs calculator.
G11. Ponce, V. M. 2011. A general dimensionless unit hydrograph.
G12. Ponce, V. M. 2009. Cascade and convolution: One and the same.
G13. Woolhiser, D. A. 1996. Search for physically based runoff model: a hydrologic El Dorado?
G14. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Clark unit hydrogragh. (Video)
G15. Ponce, V. M., and N. R. Nuccitelli. 2013. Comparison of two types of Clark unit hydrograghs.
G16. Ponce, V. M., and N. R. Nuccitelli. 2013. Online routing Clark.
G17. Kull, D. A., and A. D. Feldman. 1998. Evolution of Clark's unit graph method to spatially distributed runoff.
G18. Hydrologic Engineering Center. 1998. HEC-HMS Muskingum-Cunge model.
G19. Ponce, V. M. 2013. Creager and flood wave diffusion.
G20. Ponce, V. M. 2005. Flood hydrology of the Binational Cottonwood Creek - Arroyo Alamar, California and Baja California.
G21. Ponce, V. M., H. A. Castro, A. E. Espinoza, R. Celis, and F. Perez. 2005. Flood hydrology of Tecate Creek, Tecate, Baja California, Mexico.
G22. Ponce, V. M. 2005. A hydrodynamic watershed model.
H. Channel routing
(2 week)
H01. Ponce, V. M. 2008. La Leche river flood control project, Lambayeque, Peru: Flood hydrology.
H02. Ponce, V. M., R. P. Pandey, and S. Kumar. 1999. Groundwater recharge by channel infiltration in El Barbon basin, Baja California, Mexico.
H03. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Muskingum method. (Video)
H04. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Kinematic waves. (Video)
H05. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Kinematic wave celerity. (Video)
H06. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Diffusion waves. (Video)
H07. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Muskingum-Cunge method. (Video)
H08. Vuppalapati, B., and V. M. Ponce, 2016. Muskingum-Cunge amplitude and phase portraits with online computation.
H09. Ponce, V. M. 2011. The Att-kin model.
H10. Ponce, V. M. 2011. The competition between kinematic and dynamic waves.
H11. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Introduction to dynamic waves. (Video)
H12. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Instability of the Preissmann scheme.
H13. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Unsteady flow with HEC-RAS. (Video)
H14. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Steady vs unsteady flow with HEC-RAS.
H15. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Causes of runoff diffusion. (Video)
I. Climate change
(2 weeks)
I01. Ponce, V. M., and S. Kumar. 1999. Global climate change, sustainable development, and environmental ethics.
I02. Ponce, V. M. 2011. The global carbon cycle.
I03. Ponce, V. M. 2011. The 33 facts about global warming.
I04. Ponce, V. M. 2011. The science of global warming: Good, bad, or ugly?
I05. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Uncommon sense: The sense behind global warming.
I06. Ponce, V. M. 2014. Plants and animals: How many are they?
I07. Ponce, V. M. 2014. The global warming puzzle: How many people does one car amount to?
I08. Ponce, V. M. 2015. Effect of global climate change on the White Range of Peru
I09. Ponce, V. M. 2016. Data bank on the glaciers of the White Range of Peru
Week 17:  Project Final Oral Presentations (Tuesday only)
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