Tag Archives: hydrology

How I taught Flooding online in Spring 2020

This post is part of a series in which I provide the details of each unit I taught post-transitioning to online in Spring 2020 in the Watershed Hydrology class at Kent State University. For more context about the course and … Continue reading

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A Riverine Flooding Cookbook, Volume 1: Meteorological Floods

Meteorological floods are closely tied to the four mechanisms of atmospheric lifting (convection, frontal systems, convergence, and orographic) that produce cooling, saturation, and precipitation. As climate change warms the atmosphere, enabling it to hold more water, and shifts atmospheric circulation patterns, there is the potential for more severe flooding and flooding in new places to result from any of these lifting mechanisms. Continue reading

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How flow generation controls stream hydrographs

The streamflow generation mechanisms working in the landscape control how quickly the stream responds to precipitation – and how quickly the stream responds to precipitation controls how high the peak flow gets. Continue reading

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Measuring infiltration capacity in the field

Infiltration capacity is measured by devices that let water soak into the ground until a steady rate is reached and then some math. This post focuses on the field work and skips the math. Continue reading

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Measuring precipitation: radar and satellite based measurements

…the vexing problem is figuring out how well that point measurement represents a broader area of interest. So in this post, I want to focus on technologies that look to the sky to provide data on the intensity of precipitation occurring over broader areas. Continue reading

Categories: by Anne, hydrology, teaching