CEW541AssocProfDrShankerKumarSinnakaudan

TUTORIAL 1
QUESTION 1:

Draw a sketch of the Hydrologic Cycle showing at least 5 terms of water mass transfer

QUESTION 2:


Match the definitions with the terms in the word bank below. Record the letter of the term on
the Blank Box preceding the statement.

a. The change of water from a gas to a liquid

b. The process in which water becomes a vapor in the atmosphere

c. The method in which water continually moves from the earth to
the atmosphere and back again

d. A resource needed by all the living things in an ecosystem

e. The gaseous state of water

f. The forms of condensed water vapor such as snow, rain, or sleet

g. Water stored in the ground


Word Bank:
A. condensation
B. water
C. water vapor
D. evaporation
E. water cycle
F. Precipitation
G. groundwater
QUESTION 3:
a) Draw and compare the pre development (Year 1982) (FigQ3a) and post development
(Year 2012)(FigQ3b) discharge hydrographs for Sungai Ular catchment outlet.

CEW541AssocProfDrShankerKumarSinnakaudan

b)Explainthereason/sforthespecificshapeoftheresultanthydrographs

c)Drawandshowhowthechangesindischargehydrograph(fromrisinglimbcrestfallinglimb)
depictedbyflowconditionchangesinanaturalandmanmadechannel.

QUESTION 3: (Final Exam CEW503 Jan 2013)

A storage reservoir has an average area of 25 km
2
in J une. The monthly precipitation over
the reservoir was 12 cm and the total monthly evaporation and average seepage loss were
measured as 8cm and 4 cm respectively. What would be the withdrawal rate that will reduce
the water level in reservoir by 0.3 m if the inflow into the reservoir in J une was 0.03
Mm
3
/day?
QUESTION 4 : ( PROBLEM 1.2, Subramanya)
A catchment area of 140 km
2
received 120 cm of rainfall in a year. At the outlet of the
catchment, the flow in stream draining the catchment was found to have an average rate of
2.0m
3
/s for 3 month, 3 m
3
/s for 6 months and 5.0 m
3
/s for 3 months.
i) what is the runoff coefficient of the catchment
ii) if the afforestation of the catchment reduces the runoff coefficient to 0.50, what is the
increase in the abstraction from precipitation due to infiltration, evaporation and transpiration,
for the same annual rainfall of 120 cm?
FigQ3a:Year1982:PreDevelopment
Landuse:ForestReserve
Outlet
FigQ3a:Year2012:PostDevelopment
Landuse:Highdensitylow
costterracehouses
Outlet