WAT-E1100 - Water and Environmental Engineering, 01.09.2020-21.10.2020

Topic outline

• Week 2: Hydrology and water resources management
  Starting on Monday 14 Sep at 9.00 online, the second week provides a view on hydrology and water resources management.

  Monday morning reviews the hydrological cycle and runoff generation with the aim to facilitate discussion in the class. Selected aspects of water resources management related to irrigation, groundwater, regulation of lakes and rivers, and surface water quality aspects are demonstrated.

  Monday afternoon starts with research highlight presentations. The afternoon ends with a hydrological measurement demonstration and data analysis session.
  

  Tuesday's Thematic Task focuses on the application of a hydrological model through an exercise. The day is organised online, where students can run the model and perform computations. The Thematic Task i.e. hydrological modelling exercise itself is a group work. Each group will be given data and hydrological model for different catchments. The group will get familiar with their site, data, and the model and make an assessment of hydrological processes in the catchment. The application part of the exercise is to extract transient climate scenarios extending from the current conditions to future, run the hydrological model with the scenarios, and assess how the climate change is seen in the studied catchments.
  

  
  

  Wednesday is the day to get familiar with simulation modeling and related tools and procedures, such as model calibration, validation, and sensitivity analysis. 

  Thursday is devoted to individual work on the Weekly Exercise. Extra help is available for completing the exercise in the afternoon.
  

  Friday is the day to finished the computations of each groups and prepare a presentation about their weekly exercise results. A mini seminar is held in the afternoon to wrap up the results.

  The week consists of the following submitted tasks:

  • Thematic task: HBV Modelling  (DL for group presentation slides: Friday 18 September 2020 at 14:00)
  • Weekly exercise: Simulation Modelling (DL Friday 25 September 2020 at 23:59)

  General schedule for the week is shown in the figure below, while the detailed schedule can be found below the figure.

  
  

  
  

  • Select activity Detailed time schedule All contact sessions this w...

    Detailed time schedule

    All contact sessions this week will be held online in the course Zoom.

    Monday 14.9.

    09:00 -12:00 Hydrology and water resources management (Harri Koivusalo)
    12.00 -13:00 Lunch break
    13:00 -13:45 Research highlights on Hydrology and water resources management
    

    • Groundwater hydrology (by DSc Hanne Laine-Kaulio, Aalto University)
      
    • Agricultural hydrology  (by DSc Heidi Salo, Aalto University)
    • Rainfall and hydrology (by DSc Tero Niemi, Finnish Meteorological Institute)

    14:00 - 16:00 Demonstration of hydrological measurements and analysis (Heidi Salo, Harri Koivusalo, Antti Louhio)
    

    Tuesday 15.9.
    

    09:00 - 12:00 HBV exercise introduction and individual/group work on the exercise
    13:00 - 16:00 HBV exercise continues

    Wednesday 16.9.

    09:00 - 10:00 Modelling: Lecture (Teemu Kokkonen)
    

    10:00 - 12:00 Modelling: Snow model exercise, guided workshop (Teemu Kokkonen)

    12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

    13:00 - 16:00 Modelling: Snow model exercise, guided workshop (Teemu Kokkonen)
    

    
    

    Thursday 17.9.

    09:00 - 12:00 Modelling: Snow model exercise, individual work

    12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
    

    13:00 - 16:00 Modelling: Snow model exercise, guided workshop (Teemu Kokkonen)
    

    
    

    Friday 18.9. 

    08:30 - 12:00 Work to complete the computations and presentation.
    12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break
    13:00 - 14:00 Finalisation of presentations.
    14:00 - 16:00 Presentations and wrap-up of the exercise. Each groups shows a 10-12 min presentation of the objectives, the key results, and the main conclusions. The presentation files need to have a title page including the full names of all authors.
    

    
    

  • Select activity Lecture material

    Lecture material

  • Select activity Lecture material

    Not available unless: You are a(n) Student
  • Select activity Rainfall-runoff demonstration

    Rainfall-runoff demonstration
    

  • Select activity Research highlight and rainfall-runoff demonstration material

    Not available unless: You are a(n) Student

    

    Research highlight and rainfall-runoff demonstration material Folder
  • Select activity Exercise materials

    Exercise materials

  • Select activity Instructions for the HBV-presentations.

    

    Instructions for the HBV-presentations. File PDF
  • Select activity Thematic task: HBV Modelling

    Not available unless: You are a(n) Student

    

    Thematic task: HBV Modelling Assignment
  • Select activity CORDEX scenarios for HBV-modelling

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    CORDEX scenarios for HBV-modelling Folder
  • Select activity Weekly exercise: Simulation modelling

    

    Weekly exercise: Simulation modelling Assignment
  • Select activity Videos about the HBV-exerciseNote that "HBV-Kalajo...

    Videos about the HBV-exercise

    Note that "HBV-Kalajoki.xlsm" -file contains information boxes about the HBV model setup. The same information is not presented in other HBV-files. These videos provide explanation about the HBV-model and the data.
    

    Information about opening "HBV-Kalajoki.xlsm"-file and enabling macros.

    Information about the "Model" -sheet in the HBV-model.
    

    Information about the "Params" -sheet in the HBV-model.

    Information about the "PET" -sheet in the HBV-model.

    Review of Visual Basic Macros in "HBV-Kalajoki.xlsm"-file.

    Hints to do a climate change scenario with the HBV-model.

    Hints on how to aggregate data in Excel.