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Grading/Syllabus

Course grades determined using the following weights: 60% homework, 20% midterm, 20% final. Major modeling homeworks will be due two weeks after assignment, smaller problem sets will be due one week after assignment.


Table 1: Course Syllabus. ``W'' in Chapter column denotes WMS 8.1 Tutorial, ``T'' denotes textbook.
Week Dates Chapters Lecture Lab
1 Jan. 13, 15   Organizational Meeting, Introduction to Surface Water Modeling  
2 Jan. 20, 22   Watershed Characteristics  
3 Jan. 27, 29 T3, W1.2 Watershed Definitions, Overview Introduction to WMS
4 Feb. 3, 5 T3, W1.4, W2.1 Calculating Watershed Parameters: Manning Eqn. DEM Manipulation in WMS
5 Feb. 10, 12 T3, W9 Calculating Watershed Parameters: Travel Time Travel Time Calculation
6 Feb. 17, 19 T4 Precipitation/Rainfall Characterization Storm Event Specification
7 Feb. 24, 26 T9, W8 Hydrographs Runoff Calculation and Hydrographs, Rational Method
8 Mar. 3,, Mar. 5 T7, W11 Rational Method Midterm Project
9 Mar. 10, 12 T10-11, W5 Stream and Reservoir Routing WMS Tutorial Chp. 5, Using TIN's, p. 51-68
- Mar. 17, 19   Spring Break, GSA S. Central  
10 Mar. 224, 26 T9, W TR-20 Modeling WMS 6.1 Tutorial,chp. 19, pg. 213-223
11 Mar. 31, Apr. 2 W9 TR-55 Modeling WMS Tutorial p. 121-135
12 Apr. 7, 9 W10 HEC-1 Modeling WMS Tutorial p. 137-158
13 Apr. 14, 16 W15 Floodplain Delineation, Dambreak Floodplain delineation
14 Apr. 21, 23   Finish HEC-1  
15 Apr. 28, 30   Class final project presentations  
- May 12 11am   Final Exam  


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GEOS 5313 Lecture Notes, Spring 2009
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