Hydrologie I
RWTH Aachen University
German-language introductory university course from RWTH Aachen on the quantitative water cycle: precipitation measurement, evaporation, runoff generation and their interactions, and heavy-rainfall flood events. Learners can reason about basic water-balance terms and explain how intense rainfall turns into flood discharge.
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