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2025 PYQ

In the context of the effect of drainage density on the run-off generation and the hydrograph at the catchment outlet, all other factors remaining the same, pick one or more CORREC...

Hydrology/MSQ/answer key
2025 PYQ

The peak of flood hydrograph due to a 3 -hour duration storm in a catchment is $180 \mathrm{~m}^3 / \mathrm{s}$. The total rainfall depth is 6.6 cm . It can be assumed that the ave...

Hydrology/NAT/explanation
2025 PYQ

A 60 cm diameter well completely penetrates a confined aquifer of permeability $5 \times 10^{-4} \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s}$. The length of the strainer (spanning the entire thicknes...

Hydrology/NAT/explanation
2025 PYQ

The mean rainfall over a catchment has to be estimated. The data for four rain gauges located in and around the catchment is listed in the table. Which one of the following stateme...

Hydrology/MCQ/answer key/explanation
2025 PYQ

To derive the total flood hydrograph at a catchment outlet from an isolated storm, the order in which the following methods are applied, from the first method to the last method, i...

Hydrology/MCQ/answer key/explanation
2025 PYQ

A symmetrical trapezoidal canal is 100 km long. The bottom width is 10 m and the side slope is 1 Horizontal : 1 Vertical. The average flow depth in the canal is 2.5 m throughout th...

Hydrology/NAT/explanation
2025 PYQ

A water resources project with an expected life of 25 years has to be designed for an acceptable risk of $5 \%$ against a design flood. The return period for the design flood (in y...

Hydrology/NAT/explanation
2024 PYQ

The ordinates of a 1-hour unit hydrograph (UH) are given below. Time (hours) 0 1 2 3 4 5 Ordinates of 1-hour UH (m 3 /s) 0 13 50 80 95 85 Time (hours) 6 7 8 9 10 11 Ordinates of 1-...

Hydrology/NAT
2024 PYQ

A storm with a recorded precipitation of 11.0 cm, as shown in the table, produced a direct run-off of 6.0 cm. Time from start (hours) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Recorded cumulative precipitat...

Hydrology/NAT
2023 PYQ

The ordinates of a one-hour unit hydrograph for a catchment are given below: $$ \begin{array}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|} \hline t(\text { hour }) & 0 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\ \hlin...

Hydrology/NAT/explanation
2023 PYQ

Which one of the following options provides the correct match of the terms listed in Column-1 and Column-2? Column-1 Column-2 P: Horton equation IV: Infiltration Q: Muskingum metho...

Hydrology/MTF/answer key/explanation
2023 PYQ

In Horton’s equation fitted to the infiltration data for a soil, the initial infiltration capacity is 10 mm/h; final infiltration capacity is 5 mm/h; and the exponential decay cons...

Hydrology/NAT/explanation
2022 PYQ

A two-hour duration storm event with uniform excess rainfall of 3 cm occurred on a watershed. The ordinates of streamflow hydrograph resulting from this event are given in the tabl...

Hydrology/NAT/explanation
2022 PYQ

A flood control structure having an expected life of n years is designed by considering a flood of return period T years. When T = n, and n $$\to$$ $$\infty$$, the structures hydro...

Hydrology/NAT/explanation
2022 PYQ

Match Column X with Column Y : Column X Column Y (P) Horton equation (I) Design of alluvial channel (Q) Penman method (II) Maximum flood discharge (R) Chezy's formula (III) Evapotr...

Hydrology/MTF/answer key/explanation
2020 Q18

The probability that a 50 year flood may NOT occur at all during 25 years life of a project (round off to two decimal places), is _________.

Hydrology/NAT/answer key
2015 PYQ

The average surface area of a reservoir in the month of June is 20 km 2 . In the same month, the average rate of inflow is 10 m 3 /s, outflow rate is 15 m 3 /s, monthly rainfall is...

Hydrology/MCQ/answer key
2015 PYQ

In a catchment, there are four rain-gauge stations, P, Q, R, and S. Normal annual precipitation values at these stations are 780 mm, 850 mm, 920 mm, and 980 mm, respectively. In th...

Hydrology/NAT
2013 PYQ

A 1-hour rainfall of 10 cm has a return period of 50 years. The probability that 1 hour of rainfall 10 cm or more will occur in each of two successive years is

Hydrology/MCQ/answer key
2013 PYQ

An isohyet is a line joining points of

Hydrology/MCQ/answer key
2012 PYQ

The ratio of actual evapo-transpiration to potential evapo-transpiration is in the range

Hydrology/MCQ/answer key
2002 PYQ

During a 6-hour storm the rainfall intensity was 0.8 cm/hr on a catchment of area 8.6 km 2 . The measured runoff volume during this period was 2,56,000 m 3 . The total rainfall was...

Hydrology/MCQ/answer key
1998 PYQ

The return period for the annual maximum flood of a given magnitude is 8 years. The probability that this flood magnitude will be executed once during the next 5 years is

Hydrology/MCQ/answer key
1997 PYQ

Hyetograph is a graph representing

Hydrology/MCQ/answer key
1997 PYQ

Lysimeter and Tensiometer are used to measure respectively, one of the following groups of quantities:

Hydrology/MCQ/answer key
1991 PYQ

A tropical cyclone in a northern hemisphere is a wind stream with

Hydrology/MCQ/answer key