You are my strength, I sing praise to you; you, God, are my fortress, my God on whom I can rely.

– Psalm 59:17
Bulacan State University City of Malolos College of Engineering (Civil Engineering Department)

CE 462 – Hydrology
Quiz No. 1- Precipitation (Part 2)
Name of Student: ___________________________________________ Score: _____ CE 4 Special Class
(Surname, First Name MI)

INSTRUCTIONS:
For all problems: 1) Round off to four decimal places for all calculations to be made.
2) Show complete solution for each problem.
3) Enclose final answer in a box.

PROBLEM 1
A catchment has six rain gauge stations. In a year, the annual rainfall recorded by the gauges are as
follows:
Station A B C D E F
Rainfall (cm) 82.6 102.9 180.3 110.3 98.8 136.7

For a 10% error in the estimation of the mean rainfall, calculate the optimum number of stations in the
catchment.
PROBLEM 2
Test the consistency of the 22 years of data of the annual precipitation measured at station A. Rainfall data for
station A as well as the average annual rainfall measured at a group of eight neighbouring stations located in a
meteorologically homogeneous region are given as follows:

Annual Rainfall Average Annual Rainfall

Year
of Station A (mm) of 8 Station Groups (mm)
1946 177 143
1947 144 132
1948 178 146
1949 162 147
1950 194 161
1951 168 155
1952 196 152
1953 144 117
1954 160 128
1955 196 193
1956 141 156
1957 158 164
1958 145 155
1959 132 143
1960 95 115
1961 148 135
1962 142 163
1963 140 135
1964 130 143
1965 137 130
1966 130 146
1967 163 161
 You are my strength, I sing praise to you; you, God, are my fortress, my God on whom I can rely.
– Psalm 59:17
Bulacan State University City of Malolos College of Engineering (Civil Engineering Department)

PROBLEM 3
For a drainage basin of 600 km2, isohyetals drawn for a storm gave the following data:

Isohyetals (interval) (cm) 15 - 12 12 - 9 9-6 6-3 3–1

Inter-isohyetal area (km2) 92 128 120 175 85

PROBLEM 4
The average annual rainfall at gauges 1, 2, and 3 are 500, 750 and 1000 mm, respectively. Calculate the annual
average rainfall quantity inside the given catchment (plan shown below) using the Thiessen Method. Each square is
1 km X 1 km.

Rain gage station 2

Catchment boundary