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22-Agric-B7 Principles of Hydrology: December 2016

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  1. Question 1 Watershed–Lake Water Balance and Storm-Rainfall Intensity
  2. Question 2 Unit-Hydrograph S-Curve Transformation and Green–Ampt Infiltration
  3. Question 3 Watershed Runoff-Computation Procedure and Linear-Reservoir Routing
  4. Question 4 Flood-Risk Probability, Log-Pearson III Return Period, and a Triangular Rainfall PDF

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National Exams — November-December 2016 — 04-Agric-B7, Principles of Hydrology. Three-hour, open-book exam; any non-communicating calculator is permitted. Format: any THREE (3) questions constitute a complete exam paper (the first three as they appear in the answer book are marked), each of equal value; most questions require calculations. All four questions are solved here as a complete study resource.

Reference texts: Chow, Maidment & Mays, Applied Hydrology — water-budget analysis, IDF/hyetograph reduction, unit-hydrograph S-curve transformation, Green–Ampt infiltration, storage-indication (Puls) reservoir routing, binomial hydrologic risk, log-Pearson Type III flood-frequency analysis; Viessman & Lewis, Introduction to Hydrology — hydrologic-cycle terminology and watershed water-budget conventions.