Course overview
This course will enable students to conduct catchment scale flood studies, recommend design flood peaks and plan flood mitigation strategies. This course covers three modules: Flood routing, catchment modelling and flood forecasting; Regional flood frequency studies (RFFS); and water sensitive urban design (WSUD).
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate in-depth understanding of the techniques for estimating design floods and assess associated risks.
- Demonstrate expertise in developing an event-based RORB rainfall-runoff model of a catchment for flood forecasting.
- Identify and interpret causes and effects, as well as uncertainty, in the model outputs.
- Evaluate the impact of climate and land-use changes on catchment hydrology.
- Identify and design suitable WSUD strategies for flood mitigation and stormwater harvesting.
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