9795484 - IDROLOGIA E TUTELA DEL TERRITORIO
Module IDROLOGIA DI BACINO

It is expected that the students of the Basin Hydrology course, at the end of the lessons, know the characteristics of a hydrographic basin and know how to conduct a hydrological study, using GIS supports.

​Teaching includes lectures and exercises. The latter are related to the preparation of a hydrological study. If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote way, the necessary changes with respect to what was previously stated may be introduced, in order to respect the program reported in the syllabus.

As a guarantee of equal opportunities and in compliance with current laws, interested students can ask for a personal interview in order to plan any compensatory and/or dispensatory measures, based on their specific needs and on teaching objectives of the discipline. 
It is also possible to ask the departmental contacts of CInAP (Center for Active and Participatory Integration - Services for Disabilities and/or DSAs), in the persons of professors Giovanna Tropea Garzia and Anna De Angelis.

Knowledge of Mathematics and Hydraulics are required (not preparatory)

Basic elements and regulatory-institutional framework: definition of the hydrographic basin, hydrological balance. Regulatory and institutional framework for soil protection and water resources.

Main hydrological processes: genesis and classification of precipitation, soil-atmosphere interaction, runoff generation mechanisms, runoff components, elements of the hydrological balance, soil erosion and loss (hints). Measurement of hydrological variables.

Estimation of flood flows: Evaluation of flood flows referable to medium-high return times, Deterministic models for the evaluation of floods. Infiltration in unsaturated soil, SCS-Curve Number.

Classification and validation of hydrological models: models with concentrated, distributed and semi-distributed parameters; theoretical, conceptual, empirical; deterministic, probabilistic, stochastic.

Hydrological balance: definition, classification. Deficit risk. Distribution of annual outflows. Duration curves, utilization curves, regulation curves. Hydrological balance models.

1. McGraw-Hill, 2013	Idraulica e Idrologia per le scienze agrarie, ambientali e forestali	Vito ferro
2. Hoepli, 2010	Conducibilità idraulica del suolo	Bagarello e Iovino
3. Edagricole Università & Formazione, 2015	L’acqua in agricoltura	Marcello Mastrorilli
4. Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente	Dispense distribuite durante il corso	Consoli Simona

Students attending the course will take two written tests, the first at the end of the hydrological study, the second (at the end of the lessons) will deal with the remaining part of the program. Verification of learning can also be carried out electronically, should the conditions require it.

Students who do not pass (that is, they will have obtained a grade of less than 18/30) the test will have to sit
the oral exam (of the whole module or only part of it, depending on whether or not one of the two tests has been passed).
The written test will take place exclusively in the manner described above; all the others
exam sessions for the module will only include an oral interview.

Methods of areal evaluation of the variable precipitation;
Meaning of soil water retention;
Determination of the pluviometric probability curve;
Rational method for determining the flood discharge of a basin.