1. Hydrology is a inter - disciplinary science. Justify.

2. Describe the hydrologic cycle with a neat sketch.

3. List out the practical applications of hydrology
4. What is the basis for measurement of precipitation? What are the difficu
lties that come in the way of accurate measurement of precipitation?
5. Describe with a neat sketch the principle of working of Symon's non-reco
rding rainguage, tipping bucket type recording rainguage, weighing bucket type r
ecording rainguage & float type recording rainguage. Discuss its advantages & di
sadvantages. How does the Indian standard rainguage differ from Symon's guage
6. What are the precautions to be taken in selecting a site for the locatio
n of a rainguage?
7. What is moving - average curve? How is it constructed? What are its uses
?
8 What is a rainfall hyetograph? How is it derived from a give rainfall ma
ss curve?
9. Describe the step - by step procedure involved in the analysis for devel
oping Intensity frequency duration relationships. Sketch a typical set of curves
10. Describe the three methods of determining the average depth of rainfall
over an area.Bring out the merits and demerits of each method
11. Discuss the various procedures available to estimate the missing precipi
tation records
12. Define rainguage density. Discuss the ISI norms for the rainguage densit
y
13. Discuss the factors effecting evaporation
14. Describe various methods of estimating evaporation from water bodies
15. Define pan coefficient.the relative merits & demerits of sunken, floatin
g & land pans
16. Describe the ISI standard evaporation pan with a neat sketch In what way
it IS different from USWB class A land pan
17. Discuss various factors affecting Evapotranspiration
18. Explain how the evapotranspiration can be estimated using the blaney cri
ddle and thornthwaite equation
19. Explain the, use of Lysimeter in measuring Evapotranspiration
20. Discuss various methods of reducing evaporation from a water body
21. Define infiltration percolation and infiltration capacity rate
22. What are the factors effecting infiltration
23. Discuss various infiltration equations
24. Define pi-index and w-index
25. how is pi-index used in estimating the runoff from a strom
26. Desribe briefly how totyal pptn is transformed into the total runoff
27. list out various climatic & Physiographic factors which affect runoff. D
iscuss their influence on the volume of runoff and on the time distribution of r
unoff.
28. How is API computed from daily rainfall data? What is the range of the r
ecession factor?
29: How runoff is estimated using strange's tables & Barlow's tables
30. What is a flow duration curve? How is it constructed? What are its uses?
31. Sketch a typical hydrograph resulting from an isolated storm and identif
y the features of the same.
32. Why is base flow separated from total runoff? Describe any two methods o
f separating the base flow from the total runoff.
33. What is a master depletion curve? How is it used to separate the base fl
ow from the total runoff?
34. Explain with a neat sketch how the storage requirements to meet a unifor
m demand rate can be determined using a mass curve.
35. Expla!n how runoff is estimated using Khosla's method.
36. Explainwhy.rainfall-runoff relationships are needed.