CURRICULAR UNIT - HYDROLOGICAL RESOURCES

CURRICULAR UNIT - HYDROLOGICAL RESOURCES

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8383118

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The course of Water Resources covers fundamental concepts in the training of students in the area of ​​hydrological risks. This course covers topics related to the study of the management, operation and sustainability of Portuguese water resources, and in this context promotes social and environmental awareness and responsibility.

Students must:

  • - Learn to position as a future agent of civil protection within the national water systems, serving as interlocutor between the water managers (and their management options) and technical civil protection (and the actions of prevention and intervention);
  • - Internalize the principles of linking water resources to support basic sciences (hydrology, hydraulics, meteorology, geology, statistics, chemistry) in order to mobilize them permanently in the assessments of the status of hydrological risk situations, acting preventively;
  • - Have ideas about the implications of the diverse uses of water resources exploitation and its degree of sustainability, and thus develop attitudes and values ​​of social and environmental responsibility;
  • - Use knowledge of water resources to mitigate excesses alarmism in populations caused by news reported, for example, by the press on extreme hydrological events (floods and droughts) or pollution accidents (in surface water or groundwater)

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introductions to Water Resources

2. Key issues and concept of sustainability

3. Hydrology - General Concepts

4. Hydrological Cycle and Watershed

5. The importance of Metrology

6. Surface water and groundwater

7. Basic parameters

  • 7.1. Rainfall
  • 7.2. Evapotranspiration
  • 7.3. Runoff - Modules

8. Natural and anthropogenically modified regimes

9. Curves of Average annual average daily flow

10. Rainfall Extreme - checking the degree of exceptionality

11. Floods - notions of drainage and verification of scaling hydraulic passages

12. Droughts - scarcity - climate change