Point Precip - Correct Answer- Rainfall data recorded at a single point (from a rainfall guage)
Areal Precip - Correct Answer- Combined point precip data to evaluate variability and
rainfall data over an area.
Areal Precipitation Methods - Correct Answer- Arithmetic Mean
Thiessen Polygon Method (weighted average based on area)
Isohyetal (contours of equal precipitation)
Dopplar radar (accurate but expensive)
1 Acre - Correct Answer- 43,560 square feet
parts of a hydrograph - Correct Answer- Rising limb
, peak
receding limb
baseflow
continuity equation - Correct Answer- Q = vA
Bad ass one armed dude - Correct Answer- John Wesley Powell
Evaporation factors - Correct Answer- Temp
Humidity
Air pressure
cloud cover
surface area
wind
soil h2o content
Transpiration factors - Correct Answer- Type of vegetation (alfalfa is bad)
season of growth
Pan evaporation - Correct Answer- ET0 = kpE
kp = pan constant
Types of random variables - Correct Answer- discrete and continuous
Return Period - Correct Answer- Average length of time between occurrences of a storm of a
given magnitude or greater. Also known as recurrence interval.
Probability of Occurrence - Correct Answer- Probability that a given storm is equal or
exceeded in a given year
Reliability - Correct Answer- probability that a T year storm will not occur in n years
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