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Course: Introduction to River Hydrology and Hydraulics
The course is designed for anyone who requires an appreciation of the management of river systems or the impact of developments in a river catchment.  
 
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It is suitable for new graduates, consultants, local authority staff, conservation and fisheries officers, development control and flood defence officers and for specialists in other disciplines.
The course will include descriptions of the basic hydrological and hydraulic processes and these will be demonstrated by a number of worked examples, which will be inspersed throughout the two days.

Course content:
-Hydrometric Analysis
-Estimating flows and flow hydrographs
-River flow processes
-Conveyance
-Flow resistance and roughness
-River structures
-Development and flood risk

 

Web address http://www.hrwallingford.co.uk/downloads/training/IRHH03.pdf

from 12-02-2003 to 13-02-2003

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Venue Wallingford, Oxfordshire, U.K.
Organizer(s) HR Wallingford
Language(s) English
Contact name Céline Grand
Contact email ceg@hrwallingford.co.uk



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