Hydrological modeling of cultivated basins

The EU aims to support students in gaining practical experience and a high-level perspective on hydrological modeling of watersheds dominated by agricultural activities and subject to climate change. The EU's approach is based on four key points:

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

2. Specific features of agricultural landscapes and implications for modeling,

3. Issues surrounding scale change,

4. Practice and critique of hydrological modeling.

The EU will provide advanced knowledge on production functions, transfer functions, global and distributed modeling. It will guide students toward the independent use of various hydrological models (Green and Ampt, reservoir, Curve Number, unit hydrograph, cascade of reservoirs, etc.) and toward taking a step back to consider the parameterization, calibration, and validation of hydrological models.

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

M1 EU: "Water Cycle"

For 75%: Final assessment by written exam with documents (1.5 hours)

For 25%: Assessment of an oral presentation of micro-projects in groups of three (15 min presentation + 15 min Q&A)

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