Hydrological modelling of cultivated basins

The EU aims to accompany students to the practice and the high level of hindsight on the hydrological modeling of watersheds dominated by agricultural activities and subject to climate change. The UE is articulated around 4 points of view:

1. Watershed hydrology and its place in the history of science,

2. Specificities of agricultural landscapes and implications for modeling ,

3. The problem of changing scales,

4. Practice and critique of hydrological modeling.

The course will provide advanced knowledge on production functions, transfer functions, global and distributed modeling. It will lead the students to the autonomous practice of different hydrological models (Green and Ampt, reservoir, Curve Number, unit hydrograph, cascade of reservoirs, etc.) and to step back on the parameterization, calibration and validation of hydrological models.

The objective of the module is to deepen the modeling approaches of the infiltration-runoff partition and the rainfall-runoff relationship at local and cultivated watershed scales.

UE of M1 : " Water cycle

For 75% : Final exam by written exam with document (1h30)

For 25%: Evaluation of an oral presentation of micro-projects by groups of 3 (15 min presentation + 15 min questions)

Hydrological modeling, cultivated watersheds, history of modeling, global model, distributed model, production function, transfer function, parameterization, calibration, validation, global changes, scale changes