Abstract
<jats:p>One of the key tasks of hydrology is to determine the amount of water that can flow through a watercourse at a given time and space. Knowledge of extreme hydrological events is essential for the design and dimensioning of water management and engineering structures, flood risk management, spatial planning, and the protection of property and human lives. Design and extreme discharges represent values with a certain probability of occurrence and form the basis of hydrological analyses, whether in catchments with long-term measurements or in ungauged catchments, where empirical and regional approaches are applied. The study of these phenomena enables us to understand the catchment's response to extreme precipitation, the process of runoff formation, and the factors influencing its magnitude and timing, which is of fundamental importance for the safe and sustainable design of hydraulic structures and infrastructure. The presented scripts for the subject Hydrology at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava serve as a methodological guide for exercises and are primarily intended for students of the bachelor's degree programs Water Structures and Water Management, Engineering Structures and Transport Constructions, and Landscape Architecture and Planning. The content is divided into four chapters, focusing sequentially on: (1) the determination of maximum discharges using the unit hydrograph method, (2) the calculation of maximum discharges using runoff curve numbers, (3) the processing of measured data and construction of exceedance probability curves, and (4) the estimation of T-year maximum discharges in ungauged catchments. Each exercise is supplemented with the necessary theory and terminology; thus, the scripts provide a comprehensive overview of determining design and extreme discharges in hydrological practice.</jats:p>