Surface and Groundwater Hydrology Cranfield University

Programme Structure

The program focuses on:

• The hydrological cycle and the influence of man,

• Precipitation, measurement of precipitation amount and intensity, spatial analysis. Interception and depression storage. Evapotranspiration, Penman approach, actual evapotranspiration. Runoff processes; overland flow, interflow, base flow,

• Runoff measurement; velocity area methods. Structures; hydraulic principles of weirs and flumes. Stage measurement. Rating curves and other methods,

• Groundwater occurrence: porosity, permeability, water holding formations, aquifers, aquicludes, aquifer types, aquifer boundaries, springs and streams in relation to groundwater,

• Aquifer properties: transmissivity, storage coefficient, significance and typical magnitudes of these properties,

• Groundwater recharge: processes, main methods of estimation.