Hydrological modeling of cultivated basins

The aim of this course is to provide students with a practical, high-level perspective on the hydrological modeling of watersheds dominated by agricultural activities and subject to climate change. The UE is structured around 4 points of view:

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

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

3. Changing scales,

4. Practice and criticism of hydrological modelling.

The UE will provide advanced knowledge of production functions, transfer functions, global and distributed modeling. Students will be able to work independently with various hydrological models (Green and Ampt, reservoir, Curve Number, unit hydrograph, reservoir cascade, etc.), and to step back from the parameterization, calibration and validation of hydrological models.

The aim of the module is to develop approaches for modeling the infiltration-runoff partition and the rainfall-runoff relationship at local and cultivated catchment scales.

M1 course: "Water cycle

For 75%: Final 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