1. 49 marks) ‘The map displayed in Figure 1 shows the catchment for the Karuah River at Booral. Note: the map seale can be obtained from the fact thatthe distance between Stroud and Ward's River rningauges is 20 km. Compute the catchment rainfall over the Kamiah catchment for a 2-day period using: i) ananithmetic average of rain gage data (5 points) ii) Thiessen polygoas (14 points) ‘The following 2-day totals were recorded: ‘Raugauge 2-day rainfall depth (aum) Craven 268 Chichester 406 ‘Stroud 274 ‘No records were available for this storm in the Walleroo raingage due to a problem with ‘the instrument, so this station should not be used in the estimation. Comment on the accuracy of the methods used. To work out areas dew Thiessen polygons on the bitmap file karuahMap.bmp using PAINT and then run the program MAP.EXE to digitize areas. ‘igure 1. Map of Karu catchment (red circles indicate the four raingauges, th blue arrow indicates the distance between the Stroud and Ward's River ringsuges: 20 ka)2. (30. marks) The file stroudAnnMaxSamDailyRainfall xls has the annual maximum 9am daily rainfall from 1889 to 1998. Note that annual maximum 9am daily rainfall underestimates the annual ‘maximum 24-hour rainfall because it is collected between fixed times each day. Before you 1 start this question correct for this error by multiplying the 9am data by 1.1 (there is a rigorous statistical derivation for this correction factor). ‘You are asked to: 4) Plot the data on a lognormal probability plot using EXCEL and the median plotting position (10 points). b) Fita log Pearson III distribution to the Stroud annual maxinmum 24-hr rainfall data Compute the 10, 50 and 100-year 24-hour rainfall depths. Do this by computing in EXCEL the mean, standard deviation and skew of the logarithm of the 24-hour annual maximum data (10 points) ©) Plot the 2, 5, 10, 50 and 100-year 24-hour rainfall depths calculated in part (ii) on the log-normal probability plot. Comment on the fit (10 points). 4. (15 marks) Detemmine the 4-hour duration probable maximum precipitation (PMP) for a 60 km” caichment with smooth terrain centred on Stroud. Determine the temporal pattern for the storm? Present the temporal pattem as 2 bar graph of rainfall depths vs time over 30-minute intervals. 5. (1S marks) Tn a given year, a catchment with an area of 200 km? received 1300 mm of rainfall. The average evaporative energy flux due to evapotranspiration was 45 Watts/m?. Assuming negligible change in soil and groundwater storage. and also negligible interception. Estimate ‘the average rate for that year, for the river draining the catchment (in both mm/year and m/s).7. QL marks — 7 points each) Detailed meteorological measurements were taken during July 12 1974 at a station located beside a small Iake with an area of 5 km’. The daily average temperature of the evaporating, Jake surface was 26.9 °C. The pan evaporation coefficient is 0.7. ‘The water vapour transfer coefficient Ke was estimated as 1.55 x 10% cnvkm/mb (note that KK.) The following conditions were measured 2m above the water surface: ‘Net radiation Re= 400 Win Daily average air temperature = 27.2°C Daily average relative humidity = 0.7 Daily average wind speed = 58 m/s a) Estimate the evaporation from the lake using the aerodynamic approach (vapour diffusion equation) ‘b) Estimate the comesponding pan evaporation for that day. ©) Estimate the sensible heat transfer for that day assuming that the change in stored energy in the lake is negligible