| Unit name | Hydrosphere 2 |
|---|---|
| Unit code | GEOG25050 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | I/5 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Professor. Bates |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
All units in Single Honours Geography Year 1 |
| Co-requisites |
All units in Single Honours Geography Year 2 on B Syllabus |
| School/department | School of Geographical Sciences |
| Faculty | Faculty of Science |
This unit comprises three elements of 8 lectures each: River Hydraulics taught by Professor Paul Bates; Hillslope Hydrology taught by Dr. Katerina Michaelides and 'Geomorphology of Karst Terrains' taught by Professor Peter Smart. It aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to hydrological and geomorphological processes across a spectrum of scales from catchments to channels. The general fluid dynamics approach that is taken is relevant to many other areas of the physical sciences and through this unit a number of general concepts are introduced, such as conservation of mass and momentum, turbulence, force-balance equations, flow through porous media and mathematical modelling. More specifically, the unit provides an essential foundation for the hydrology units to be followed next year.
