Aim of this assignment: The aim of this assignment is to test your understanding of concepts introduced in troduced in Lectures 1-3. What you need to do: 1. All assignments, quizzes and any class related submissions must be made in the same notebook. Please make a fresh notebook which should be submitted with assignments. Make sure your name and roll number is present on the notebook. no tebook. 2. Provide neatly written/drawn solutions with proper units uni ts (wherever applicable). 3. You may use MS excel/ Matlab/ R to draw the plots, all plots must be labeled with a minimum font size on labels of 16 and font style of ‘Arial’ or ‘Helvetica’. Deadline: The assignment is due on 2nd February 2017 (end of class at 12.55 pm). Late assignments or assignments submitted on loose paper will not be accepted.
1. Draw the watershed boundary for the outflow point marked by the red marker in the map provided in Figure 1. The contour maps for the area is attached on Page 3 of this document. (10 marks)
CE 2500 Assignment 1
Instructor: Riddhi Singh
Table 2. Volume of water stored in various sources globally. Hint: Assume that all reservoirs are in equilibrium w.r.t to mass of water. So, total incoming and outgoing fluxes are equal. You can make other appropriate assumptions. (b) It is well established now that anthropogenic increases in greenhouse gas emissions leads to an increase in global mean temperature (read more about this phenomenon at the link below1). Discuss in brief in this context: How would the global hydrological cycle respond to such an increase in global mean temperatures? How would the residence time of water in atmosphere change under this new condition? Marks for part (b) will be allotted based on rationale used to support the answers. (2 + 3 marks)
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(Problem 3.4.4 from Ven Te Chow) The following followi ng incremental rainfall data were recorded at gage 1-WLN in Austin, Au stin, Texas, on May 24, 1981. Plot the rainfall hyetograph. Compute and plot the cumulative rainfall hyetograph. h yetograph. Calculate the maximum depth and intensity of rainfall for 5, 30, and 120 minutes for this storm. (1 + 1 + 3 marks) Time (min) 0 5 10 16 20 25 30 35 Rainfall (in) 0.09 0.00 0.03 0.13 0.10 0.13 0.21 Time (min) 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 Rainfall (in) 0.20 0.10 0 .10 0.13 0.14 0.12 0.16 0.14 0.18 Time (min) 110 115 120 125 130 135 140 145 Rainfall (in) 0.39 0.24 0.41 0.44 0.27 0.17 0.17 0.14 Table 3. Rainfall records for gage 1-WLN in Austin, Texas for May 24, 1981.
