Course Information:

Instructors: Professor I. Tsanis

Computer Lab Teaching assistant: Dr. Anthi-Eirini Vozinaki

Recommended Reading:

• IPCC, Climate Change 2014, Synthesis Report
• IPCC, WG I-Climate Change 2013, The Physical Science Basis
• IPCC, WG II-Climate Change 2014, Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects; Part B: Regional Aspects 
• IPCC, WG III-Climate Change 2014, Mitigation of Climate Change
• Hydrologic Modeling System HEC-HMS Quick start Guide, User’s Manual Version. 4.0, Dec. 2013
• River Analysis System HEC-RAS User’s Manual and Application Guide, Version 4.1, Jan. 2010
  • IPCC = Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • WG = Working Group

Eclass:

• Registration required

Course objectives:

The main objective of this course is to train students to understand several hydrological and meteorological issues as well as the climate change. It is very important for students to be familiar with the necessary principles and tools in order to understand and dealing with major environmental problems. Furthermore, for the simulation of the examined environmental systems it is important for the student to learn how to use several hydrological and hydraulic models. Finally, this course emphasizes the status of climate change as global phenomenon. The analysis of the impacts of climate change, the vulnerability of the several systems that are directly and indirectly affected by climate change, as well as the adaptation measures and mitigation methods, is also taking place.
 

Syllabus:

• Climate Change: Becoming familiar with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
• Climate Change: Synthetic Report/ The Physical Science Basis (WG I)/ Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, (WG II)
• Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, (WG II)/ Mitigation of Climate Change (WG III)
• Hydrometeorology and Practice in hydrologic and hydraulic models HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS and HEC-DSSVue (Project #1)
• Hydrometeorology and Practice in hydrologic and hydraulic models HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS and HEC-DSSVue (Project #2)
• HEC-HMS Application (Projects #3)
• HEC-HMS Application (Project #4)
• HEC-RAS Application (Project #5)
• HEC-HMS Application (Project #6) – Almyrida basin - Crete
• Surface Runoff and Flooding
• Probability and Risk for Hydrologic and Hydraulic Design
• Presentation of the Student Group-Project #6-Discussion
• Presentation of the Final Student Group-Project for the Climate Change (IPCC)-Discussion

Work Load:

• Project #1: Modeling of a Hydrologic Basin using HEC-HMS (Report)
• Project #2: Flow River Modeling using HEC-RAS (Report) Project #3: Effect of Urbanization (Report)
• Project #4: Storm Event Analysis using HEC-HMS (Report)
• Project #5: Analysis of Hydraulic Characteristics of a Proposed Bridge using HEC-RAS (Report)
• Project #6: Hydrologic and Hydraulic Simulation of Almyrida Basin using HEC-HMS (Presentation and Report)
• Final Project: Climate Change Report (IPCC) (Presentation and Report)
   

Assessment method:

• Report for each one of the six Projects (60%)
• Presentation of the Project #6 (Hydrologic Simulation of Almyrida Basin) (10%)
• Report and Presentation of the Final Project for Climate Change (IPCC) (30%)

Last modification: 10-10-2018