KINZLI HYDROLOGY FINAL EXAM CONCEPTUAL STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION

KINZLI HYDROLOGY FINAL EXAM CONCEPTUAL STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION Hydrologic Cycle Components Precipitation Evaporation Transpiration Infiltration Groundwater Runoff Hydrologic Budget deltaS = P-(G+ F+E+R+T) "Pig Fart" Lifting Mechanisms Frontal Movements Orographic (movement over topographic features) Convection Point Precip Rainfall data recorded at a single point (from a rainfall guage) Areal Precip Combined point precip data to evaluate variability and rainfall data over an area. Areal Precipitation Methods Arithmetic Mean Thiessen Polygon Method (weighted average based on area) Isohyetal (contours of equal precipitation) Dopplar radar (accurate but expensive) 1 Acre 43,560 square feet parts of a hydrograph Rising limb peak receding limb baseflow continuity equation Q = vA Bad ass one armed dude John Wesley Powell Evaporation factors Temp Humidity Air pressure cloud cover surface area wind soil h2o content Transpiration factors Type of vegetation (alfalfa is bad) season of growth Pan evaporation ET0 = kpE kp = pan constant Types of random variables discrete and continuous Return Period Average length of time between occurrences of a storm of a given magnitude or greater. Also known as recurrence interval. Probability of Occurrence