Course title
水文学   [Hydrology]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 2 
Department   Year 2  Semester 1st 
Course type 1st  Course code 01RN2208
Instructor(s)
白木 克繁   [SHIRAKI Katsushige]
Facility affiliation Faculty of Agriculture Office 1st Building 411 Room  Email address

Course description
Water is indispensable for most creatures on the earth and is the element which is extremely important though our life environment. The hydrology is study to learn a state and a change of the water on the earth from the situation of the water cycle, and the study field includes the land such as a river, wetlands and the groundwater. In addition, atmospheric water vapor movement is important to water cycle, and this has a big influence on the formation of the world division into climatic zones and a climate change. Water cycle is extremely important to understand an ecology.
Students will learn the theory and influence of the water cycle in the earth, rainfall infiltration, the outflow of evaporation, transpiration, the rainwater in forest.
Expected Learning
Students understand that the water cycle and heat circulation are closely related to the weather forecast. And, students understand the mechanism of natural disaster due to a water cycle and water in the mountainous district and city area.
Course schedule
1. What is the hydrology? outline of hydrology
2. Global scale water cycle, the heat balance
3. Division of climatic zones, outline of meteorology
4. Water and heat flux in the earth surface (forest, grassland, bare land)
5. Global warming and climate change
6. Use of the water by agricultural production, the social activity
7. Observation of rainfall and characteristic of distribution of the precipitation
8. Midterm examination second to the seventh
9. Water management by the basin unit, flood control
10. Rainfall-discharge process, flood outflow and available water
11. Soil water movement at the slope and water permeability and retentivity
12. Theory of soil water movement at the slope
13. Runoff analysis
14. Green dam function, paired watershed methods in the world
15. Term examination, 9th to 14th
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Assessment/Grading
Report score(20%), midterm exam.(40%), term exam.(40%)
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Japanese
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2/12/2019 10:25:12 AM