(4 credits, 60 hours)

Syllabus:
Hydroclimatic modeling. Models of infiltration and water transport in the soil. Models of water transport in rivers. Models of atmosphere-biosphere interactions. Climate models. Hydro-climatic data analysis. Climate predictions.

References:
CAMPBELL, G.S. & J.M.Norman. An introduction to environmental biophysics. Springer-Verlag. New York, 286p. 1998.

FETTER, C.W. Applied Hydrogeology. Prentice Hall, 691p. 1994.

GRAYSON, R.B., I.D. Moore, T.A. MCMAHON. Physically based hydrologic modeling 2, Is the concept realistic? Water resources Research, 26, 2659 -2666. 1992.

HASTENRATH, S. Climate dynamics of the tropics, 2nd ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers 488p. 1995.

HOLTON, J. An introduction to dynamic meteorology. Academic Press. 511p. 1992.

HOSTETLER, S.W. Hydrologic and atmospheric models: the (continuing) problem of discordant scale. Climatic Change, 27, 345-350. 1994.

KALNAY, E. The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year reanalysis Project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 77, 437-471. 1996.

POLLARD, D. & S. THOMPSON. The effect of doubling stomatal resistance in a global climate model. Global and Planetary Change, 10, 129-161, 1995.

PONCE, V. M. Engineering hydrology – Principles and practices. Prentice-Hall. New Jersey. 640p. 1989.

SCHULTZ, G.A., M. HORNBOGEN, P. VITERBO & J. NOILHAN. Coupling large-scale hydrological and atmospheric models. IAHS Special Publication no. 3. 96p. 1995.

TRENBERTH, K., Climate system modeling. Cambrigde University Press. Cambridge. 788p. 1992.

VOROSMARTY, C.J., MOORE III, A.L. GRACE, M. P. GILDEA. Continental scale models of water balance and fluvial transport: an application to South America. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 3, 241-265. 1989.