M.Tech / ICAR-NET · SWCE

Stochastic Hydrology

SWCE-504 Soil & Water Conservation Engineering

Syllabus topic plan

1. 01Hydrologic cycle, systems concept and hydrologic systems model
2. 02Classification of hydrologic models: statistical, stochastic, deterministic
3. 03Statistical characteristics and probability distributions of hydrologic variables
4. 04Deterministic vs stochastic hydrology; cause-and-effect analysis
5. 05Hydrologic time series: stationarity, ergodicity and components
6. 06Parameter estimation of probability distributions
7. 07Analysis of hydrologic extremes
8. 08Regression and correlation analysis; prediction equations
9. 09Stochastic processes and stationary processes
10. 10Autocorrelation; moving average, AR, ARMA and ARIMA processes
11. 11Spectral analysis and multivariate hydrologic series
12. 12Thomas-Fiering and Box-Jenkins models
13. 13Model formulation: parameter estimation, calibration and validation
14. 14Data generation, forecasting and regional flood frequency analysis
15. 15Markov processes and chains; modeling hydrologic uncertainty

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