CIV E 634 Surface-water Hydrology
    Spring 2015
    Suggested Project Topics

  1. Application of conceptual water balance model to three San Diego County basins. (Ramos)

  2. Application of conceptual water balance model to three global basins. (TBA)

  3. Development of an online calculator for the Hardgreaves method of evapotranspiration, including comparison with Blaney and Criddle and Penman-Monteith methods. (TBA)

  4. Experience and sensitivity of the Shuttleworth-Wallace method. (TBA)

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

  6. Comparison of Papadakis and Kazan method with Kirpich equation and Hathaway equation for time of concentration. (TBA)

  7. Case studies of the effect of runoff diffusion on drainage design, including detention. (Satterfield)

  8. Case studies of the effect of change in surface albedo on water resources. (Yazdi)

  9. Case studies of the effect of global warming on hydrologic frequency. (TBA)

  10. Application of conceptual drought model to a California basin. (TBA)

  11. Application of Palmer Drought Severity Index to a California basin and comparison with IDF method. (Diaz)

  12. Case studies of drought analysis with tree rings. (Maganuco)

  13. Drought tree ring analysis across the climatic spectrum (arid to humid). (Arnold)

  14. Application of baseflow recession to estimate aquifer parameters. (TBA)

  15. Case studies of the effect of groundwater pumping on baseflow loss. (Vuppalapati)

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

  17. Source and profile of the Colorado river (rapids). (TBA)

  18. Application of the Generalized Dimensionless Unit Hydrograph (GDUH) to a California basin. (TBA)

  19. History and applicability of the Creager formula. (TBA)

  20. Comparison of the kinematic and diffusion routing methods in the HEC-HMS model. (Russell)

  21. Case studies of comparison of SWMM and HEC-HMS. (Magallon)

  22. Progress in snow hydrology in view of climate change. (MacDonald)

  23. Effect of climate change on California's water resources. (Davis)

  24. Effect of climate change on the White Range, Peru. (TBA)

  25. Effect of climate change on drought frequency in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil. (TBA)