TY - JOUR
T1 - Accelerating advances in continental domain hydrologic modeling
AU - Archfield, Stacey A.
AU - Clark, Martyn
AU - Arheimer, Berit
AU - Hay, Lauren E.
AU - Mcmillan, Hilary
AU - Kiang, Julie E.
AU - Seibert, Jan
AU - Hakala, Kirsti
AU - Bock, Andrew
AU - Wagener, Thorsten
AU - Farmer, William H.
AU - Andréassian, Vazken
AU - Attinger, Sabine
AU - Viglione, Alberto
AU - Knight, Rodney
AU - Markstrom, Steven
AU - Over, Thomas
PY - 2015/12/31
Y1 - 2015/12/31
N2 - In the past, hydrologic modeling of surface water resources has mainly focused on simulating the hydrologic cycle at local to regional catchment modeling domains. There now exists a level of maturity among the catchment, global water security, and land surface modeling communities such that these communities are converging toward continental domain hydrologic models. This commentary, written from a catchment hydrology community perspective, provides a review of progress in each community toward this achievement, identifies common challenges the communities face, and details immediate and specific areas in which these communities can mutually benefit one another from the convergence of their research perspectives. Those include: (1) creating new incentives and infrastructure to report and share model inputs, outputs, and parameters in data services and open access, machine-independent formats for model replication or reanalysis; (2) ensuring that hydrologic models have: sufficient complexity to represent the dominant physical processes and adequate representation of anthropogenic impacts on the terrestrial water cycle, a process-based approach to model parameter estimation, and appropriate parameterizations to represent large-scale fluxes and scaling behavior; (3) maintaining a balance between model complexity and data availability as well as uncertainties; and (4) quantifying and communicating significant advancements toward these modeling goals.
AB - In the past, hydrologic modeling of surface water resources has mainly focused on simulating the hydrologic cycle at local to regional catchment modeling domains. There now exists a level of maturity among the catchment, global water security, and land surface modeling communities such that these communities are converging toward continental domain hydrologic models. This commentary, written from a catchment hydrology community perspective, provides a review of progress in each community toward this achievement, identifies common challenges the communities face, and details immediate and specific areas in which these communities can mutually benefit one another from the convergence of their research perspectives. Those include: (1) creating new incentives and infrastructure to report and share model inputs, outputs, and parameters in data services and open access, machine-independent formats for model replication or reanalysis; (2) ensuring that hydrologic models have: sufficient complexity to represent the dominant physical processes and adequate representation of anthropogenic impacts on the terrestrial water cycle, a process-based approach to model parameter estimation, and appropriate parameterizations to represent large-scale fluxes and scaling behavior; (3) maintaining a balance between model complexity and data availability as well as uncertainties; and (4) quantifying and communicating significant advancements toward these modeling goals.
KW - Hydrology
KW - Model
KW - Surface water
KW - Water resources
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84953426098&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/2015WR017498
DO - 10.1002/2015WR017498
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
VL - 51
SP - 10078
EP - 10091
JO - Water Resources Research
JF - Water Resources Research
SN - 0043-1397
IS - 12
ER -