Statistical Hydrology

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Statistical Hydrology

• By
• Prof. Dr. Eng. Amro Elfeki
• Faculty of Meteorology, Environment and Arid Land
  Agriculture (Room 207)
• Elfeki_amr_at_yahoo.co.uk

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Course Objectives

• Introduction to Statistical Hydrology
• Application of Statistics in the Hydrological
  Science
• Presentation of data
• Analysis of data
• Statistical Models
• Prediction

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Instructions for Students

• While in lecture, please DO NOT
• Forget to turn off cell phones
• Read newspapers
• Talk and have conversations
• Break Islamic and KAAU rules/laws (e.g.,
  cheating)

GROUND RULES
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Instructions for Students

• While in the lecture, please DO
• Ask questions when anything is not clear
• Engage in the discussions
• Fully participate in in-class exercises

GROUND RULES
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Instructions for Students

• Reading the notes
• Attend lectures
• Come on time.
• Homework assignments
• hard work
• Independence
• desire to improve their mind
• desire to acquire new skills
• want to understand their world
• be willing to work collaboratively

GROUND RULES
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-You-

• You absolutely LOVE science
• You need credits to graduate
• Just curious, it seemed like it might be easy
• You have absolutely no idea

WHY WERE HERE
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-Me-

• Im an Associate professor in the Dept of Water
  Management and teach 4 classes/year,
• I teach statistical hydrology, watershed
  hydrology, Introduction of water science and
  advanced surface water hydrology for MSc.
  students.

WHY WERE HERE
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Presenting the Course

• Present lecture material in power point
  presentation to honor fact that different people
  learn differently
• Seeing/Visual
• Reading
• Hearing
• Personal discovery
• etc

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Course Goals
Apply our knowledge

• Get experience in a new science.
• Broaden your Knowledge.
• Be able to develop and solve various types of
  problems related to statistical hydrology.
• Understand the advantages and limitations of
  methods and algorithms used in statistical
  hydrology.

GOALS of the Course
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Course Goals

• Comfort with new language
• Understand and appreciate how models can be used
  in statistical hydrology
• More responsible citizen.
• Lots of terminology throughout this course.
• - Statistical hydrology requires knowledge of
  various sciences like hydrology, mathematics and
  statistics.

GOALS of the Course
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Course Goals

• But also, we have these goals

GOALS of the Course

• Critical thinking scientific method.
• Improve ability to communicate
• Acquire new skills in the use of technology

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Our Chapters

• Examples of Data Records in Hydrology.
• How to Present Statistical Data?
• Estimation of Statistical Measures.
• Probability Theory and Applications.
• Random Variables and Distribution Functions.
• Mathematical Expectation.
• Flood Frequency Analysis and Plotting Position.
• Testing Hypothesis and Goodness of Fit Test.
• Statistics of More than one Variable and
  Regression Analysis.
• Introduction to Stochastic Hydrology.

Statistical hydrology
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Your Tool

• Notes.
• Websites.
• 3. Library.

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Grades
Home Work 20
points Mid term Exam 40
points Final term Exam 40
points Total
100 points
EXAMS GRADING