22-Agric-B7 Principles of Hydrology
Worked solutions to 4 past sittings (2014–2019), 20 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.
Topics across the sittings
Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.
- Hydrology Terminology (2 sittings): December 2015 Q2 · May 2014 Q2
- Log-Normal Flood-Frequency Analysis (2 sittings): December 2015 Q3 · May 2014 Q3
Questions by sitting
December 2019
- Question 1: Ontario Hydrologic Abstractions and Watershed Characteristics
- Question 2: Pond Water Balance, Combination-Method Evaporation and Storm Infiltration
- Question 3: Storm Hydrograph Analysis, Unit Hydrograph Development and Application
- Question 4: Flood-Frequency Analysis — Lognormal, Log-Pearson III and Gamma Distributions
December 2016
- Question 1: Watershed–Lake Water Balance and Storm-Rainfall Intensity
- Question 2: Unit-Hydrograph S-Curve Transformation and Green–Ampt Infiltration
- Question 3: Watershed Runoff-Computation Procedure and Linear-Reservoir Routing
- Question 4: Flood-Risk Probability, Log-Pearson III Return Period, and a Triangular Rainfall PDF
December 2015
- Question 1: Unit Hydrograph Analysis — Watershed Area and Storm Convolution
- Question 2: Hydrology Terminology
- Question 3: Missing-Data Strategy and Log-Normal Flood-Frequency Analysis
- Question 4: Double-Ring Infiltrometer — Fitting Horton's Equation
- Question 5: Detention Pond Design — Weir Sizing and Storage Routing
- Question 6: Unconfined-Aquifer Well Pumping Rate (Thiem Equation)
May 2014
- Question 1: Rainfall Intensity, Depth and Runoff Hydrographs for a Frozen Watershed
- Question 2: Hydrology Terminology
- Question 3: Log-Normal Flood-Frequency Analysis
- Question 4: Horton Infiltration and Effective Precipitation
- Question 5: Detention Pond Design for Peak-Flow Attenuation
- Question 6: Steady-State Well Discharge — Unconfined vs. Confined Aquifer