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DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

3CE05: HYDROLOGY AND WATYER RES0URCES ENGINEERING

TUTORIAL-5
Abstractions from Precipitation

A class pan was set up adjacent to a iake. The depth of water in the pan at the
1.
rainfall of 45
beginning of a cerain week was 19 mm. that week there was a
in
mm and 15 mm of water was remov ed trom the pan to keep the waler level within
the specified depth range. If the depth of water in the pan at the end of the w cek
was 190 mm. calculate the pan evaporation. Using a suitable pan coeificient
estimate the lake evaporation in that week.
The following table gives the infiltration capacity rates at various time intervals
basin:
after the beginning of a storm on a drainage
Time Rainfall Infiltration Time Rainfall Infiltratio
Intensity Capacity Intensity Capacity
(min) (cm h)_ (cm h) (in) (Cm a cmh
4 3.3 9 6 142
11 1.31
1.24
15
1.9 120
6 1.6 19 1.18
1.5 1.18
6
to the obserted data. Also.
Fit Horton's equation f f -

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calculate total rain and runoff.
3. An isolated 3-hr storm occurred over a basinin the foliowing fashion:
% of catchment o-index Rainfall (cm)
area (cm/day)
1s hour 2d hour Sed hour

1.00 O.8 2
20 1.0
30 0.75 0.7
50 0.50 1.0 0.8
Estimate the runoff from the catchment due to this storm.
20 min intervals were
3. In a 140 minute storm. the rainfall observed in successive
index value as 3 mm hr
3.0. 3.0.9.0, 6.6. 1.2. 1.2 and 6.0 mm hr. Assuming the o-
runotî and W-inder tor
and initial loss of 0.8 mm. determine the total raintall. net
the storm.
ha a storm was as follous:
4. The average rainfall over a basin of area of 50 during

Time(hr)
Rainfall(mm) 0.0 6.0 11.0 34.0 28.0 12.0 6.0 0.0
measured as 25000 m'. detemine the
If the volume of runoff from this storm was

p-index for the basin.

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