This course is designed to provide graduate students in natural resources and related disciplines with a fundamental understanding of the physics governing hydrologic processes at the land surface. Instruction will consist of lectures, quantitative and data analysis exercises, and critical reviews of journal articles.

Topics covered include:

1. Hydrologic fundamentals
   

2. Modeling frameworks
   

3. The global hydrologic cycle
   

4. Surface energy balance
   

5. Precipitation
   

6. Soil water status and flow
   

7. Canopy and open-water evaporation
   

8. Transpiration
   

9. Snowpack properties and energetics
   

10. Vegetation-snowcover interactions
    

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