CIV E 634 Surface-water Hydrology
    Fall 2020
    Suggested Project Topics

  1. Calculation of the groundwater recharge coefficient in a basin in San Diego County. (TBA)

  2. Calculation of the groundwater recharge coefficient in a basin in California. (Mueller)

  3. Comparison of the Blaney/Criddle and Penman-Monteith methods for a specific project in California. (TBA)

  4. Comparison of the Penman-Monteith and Shuttleworth-Wallace methods for a specific project in California. (TBA)

  5. Status and prospects of the λ = 0.05 in the NRCS runoff curve number method. (TBA)

  6. Comparison of Papadakis and Kazan method with Kirpich and Hathaway equations for time of concentration in specific basins in California. (TBA)

  7. Comparison of hydrologic parameters throughout the Sahel region of Africa (north to south): Precipitation, runoff, and erosion potential. (Gonzalez)

  8. Drought characterization in two California basins, one arid/semiarid and another subhumid/humid. (Graves)

  9. Drought characterization in two United States basins, one arid/semiarid and another subhumid/humid. (TBA)

  10. Case studies of the effect of groundwater pumping on baseflow loss in California. (McDowell)

  11. Application of the Pfasftetter topology to the Colorado river basin using GIS. (TBA)

  12. Application of the Pfasftetter topology to the Columbia river basin using GIS. (TBA)

  13. Source and profile of the Colorado river using GIS. (O'Hara-Rhi)

  14. Source and profile of the Missouri river using GIS. (Hunt)

  15. Comparison between Clark original 1945 and Ponce's 1989 Clark methods of catchment routing. (Scott)

  16. Application of the general dimensionless unit hydrograph to California watershed data. (TBA)

  17. Comparison between Muskingum and Muskingum-Cunge channel routing methods. (TBA)

  18. Comparison between Muskingum-Cunge and Att-kin channel routing methods. (TBA)

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