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Articles | Volume 22, issue 4
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
 | 
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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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).
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