Hourly Examination

Watershed Hydrology (CE-204)

Duration= 1 hour Max. Marks=20
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1. Define Sleet and Hails. How and when they occurs? What is the difference between them? 5

2. The isohyets for annual rainfall over a catchment basin were drawn. The areas of strips between
isohyets are indicated below in table:
Isohytes
75-85 85-95 95-105 105-115 115-135 135-155 155-175 175-185
(cm)
Area
600 2000 3000 2500 3200 1000 1200 500
(km2)
Find the average depth of annual precipitation over the basin. 5
3. The values of mass curve of precipitation resulted from a storm is given below:
Time
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
(min.)
Accumulated depth
at the end of 0 10 20 30 45 60 70 80 85
periods (mm)
5
4. A storm with 10.0 cm precipitation produced a direct runoff of 6 cm. Given the time distribution of
the storm as below. Estimate the -index of the storm. Also calculate the rainfall excess occurred in
each hour.
Time from start 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
(h)
Rainfall intensity 0.5 1.4 2.0 2.5 1.7 1.0 0.5 0.4
(cm/h)