After successful completion of the course, students are able to apply the following methods: Methods for the calculation and prediction of runoff at river basin scale. Water management systems (rivers, catchments, hydraulic structures) can be better managed, planned and controlled. In the lecture practical problems will be solved by the R-open source software.

BLOCK 1 (Live lecture on GoToMeeting - Wednesday 7 October 2020, 13:00-16:00): Introduction/overview (Water framework Directive, management plans, real-case applications)

BLOCK 2 (Live lecture on GoToMeeting - Tuesday 20 October, 09:00-12:00): Introduction to R, Time series analysis, Extreme statistics

BLOCK 3 (Lecture material will be provided online by Tuesday, 27 October) : Introduction to hydrological modelling and estimation of spatial data for hydrological analyses (Snow cover modeling, GIS, Interpolation of hydrologic variables and Geostatistics in R)

BLOCK 4 (Lecture material will be provided online by Tuesday, 10 November 2020) : Extreme statistics of rainfall and simulation of continous rainfall at gauged and ungauged sites 

BLOCK 5 (Lecture material will be provided online by Tuesday, 17 November) : Regional water balance modeling in Austria (overview of hydrologic models, regional modeling, application of remote sensing in hydrological modelling, TUW-model in R)

BLOCK 6 (Live lecture on GoToMeeting - Tuesday 24 November, 09:00-12:00): Prediction of floods and runoff hydrographs in ungauged sites (regionalisation methods)

BLOCK 7 (Lecture material will be provided online by Tuesday, 1 December 2020) : Operational runoff forecasting (flood forecasting, low flows prognosis, assimilation of observed data in hydrological models, updating)

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Methods for the calculation and prediction of runoff at river basin scale. Water management systems (rivers, catchments, hydraulic structures) can be better managed, planned and controlled.

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