Lesson 2: Water Cycle

Learning Objectives

• Define water cycle
• List the storages and fluxes for the global water cycle
• Derive and apply the water budget equation to a control volume
• Compute residence times for water storages
• Differentiate between point-valued (sampled) and mean-valued (quantized or pulsed) hydrologic data

Handouts

• Water Cycle

Reading Assignment

• None

Homework Problems

• Problem 1
• Problem 2