CIV E 634 Surface-water Hydrology
    Spring 2017
    Suggested Project Topics

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

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

  3. Comparison of the Blaney/Criddle and Penman-Monteith methods. (TBA)

  4. Comparison of the Penman-Monteith and Shuttleworth-Wallace methods. (TBA)

  5. Comparison of the Penman-Monteith and Hargreaves methods. (Poon)

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

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

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

  9. Case studies of the effect of runoff diffusion on drainage design, including detention and retention. (TBA)

  10. Case studies of the effect of change in surface albedo on water resources. (Jain)

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

  12. Review of the application of NRCS runoff curve number method to continuous simulation. (TBA)

  13. Case studies of drought analysis with tree rings. (Vo)

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

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

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

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

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

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

  20. Case studies of comparison of SWMM and HEC-HMS. (Ryan)

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

  22. Effect of climate change on California's water resources. (Nourbakh)