EESB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Water Cycle, Drainage Basin, Caffeine
7 Sep 2017
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Eesb04 lecture 1 - introduction to principles of hydrology. Describe how water is distributed on earth, in what compartments and spheres . Explain what happens to rain when it falls on the ground (i. e. the life history of a rain drop). Explain how we measure different aspects of water (rainfall, soil moisture, streamflow, etc) and the pros/ cons of multiple methods. Use quantitative tools to describe water budgets. Be able to talk about how we affect water on earth. Mass of 1 liter of water = 1 kg. Tracers: are a substance introduced into biological systems, which can be followed based on a distinctive property. The best tracers don"t attach to soils. Caffeine is a tracer because there"s no naturally occurring caffeine runoff in water. It indicates household waste incursions in water bodies. Hydrology: describes and predicts the occurrence, circulation, and distribution of the water of the earth and it"s atmosphere.
