Demonstrating the “unit hydrograph” and flow routing  processes involving active student participation –  a university lecture experiment

Schulz, Karsten; Burgholzer, Reinhard; Klotz, Daniel; Wesemann, Johannes; Herrnegger, Mathew

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-2607-2018

Articles | Volume 22, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-2607-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-2607-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 4

Education and communication

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02 May 2018

Education and communication |

| 02 May 2018

Demonstrating the “unit hydrograph” and flow routing processes involving active student participation – a university lecture experiment

Karsten Schulz, Reinhard Burgholzer, Daniel Klotz, Johannes Wesemann, and Mathew Herrnegger

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Final revised paper (published on 02 May 2018)
Preprint (discussion started on 10 Aug 2017)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of Hess-2017-498', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Sep 2017
- AC1: 'Repsonses to Referee#1 comments', Karsten Schulz, 22 Jan 2018
RC2: 'Reviewer 2 Comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Jan 2018
- AC2: 'Responses to Reviewer#2 comments', Karsten Schulz, 22 Jan 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (11 Mar 2018) by Nandita Basu

AR by Karsten Schulz on behalf of the Authors (20 Mar 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by editor) (01 Apr 2018) by Nandita Basu

ED: Publish as is (13 Apr 2018) by Nandita Basu

Short summary

The unit hydrograph has been one of the most widely employed modelling techniques to predict rainfall-runoff behaviour of hydrological catchments. We developed a lecture theatre experiment including some student involvement to illustrate the principles behind this modelling technique. The experiment only uses very simple and cheap material including a set of plastic balls (representing rainfall), magnetic stripes (tacking the balls to the white board) and sieves (for ball/water gauging).