urban ecohydrology
status: in progress
Prelude
Information for students
These notes are used in the module Urban Ecohydrology that takes place each summer term and is part of the specialisation ``Modelling flow and transport in the Critical Zone'' in the Environmental Sciences and Environmental Engineering master programmes. In this module, we lecture for twelve weeks. The lectures have primarily been developed by Dr. Mikael Gillefalk.
A rough schedule of our twelve weeks together is as follows:
| Week 1 | Introduction |
| Week 2 | Ecohydrology |
| Week 3 | Blue–green infrastructure |
| Week 4 | Urban rivers |
| Week 5 | Urban climate I |
| Week 6 | Urban climate II |
| Week 7 | Cooling effect of urban green |
| Week 8 | Evapotranspiration |
| Week 9 | Infiltration |
| Week 10 | Urban karst and urban groundwater |
| Week 11 | Methods of urban ecohydrology: Measurements |
| Week 12 | Methods of urban ecohydrology: Modelling |
Introduction
Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.
— Jean Baudrillard, Fragments
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Dr. Mikael Gillefalk, who helped me develop these notes for the course Ecohydrological Modelling at Technische Universität Braunschweig. These notes were written as part of the Juniorprofessorship programme funded by the state of Lower Saxony.