Advancing catchment hydrology to deal with predictions under change

Advancing catchment hydrology to deal with predictions under change

Ehret, U.
Gupta, H.V.
Sivapalan, M.
Weijs, S.V.
Schymanski, S.J.
Blöschl, G.
Gelfan, A.N.
Harman, C.
Kleidon, A.
Bogaard, T.A.
Wang, D.
Wagener, T.
Scherer, U.
Zehe, E.
Bierkens, M.F.P.
Di Baldassarre, G.
Parajka, J.
Van Beek, L.P.H.
Van Griensven, A.
Westhoff, M.C.
Winsemius, H.C.

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Water Management

2014-02-19

Throughout its historical development, hydrology as an earth science, but especially as a problem-centred engineering discipline has largely relied (quite successfully) on the assumption of stationarity. This includes assuming time invariance of boundary conditions such as climate, system configurations such as land use, topography and morphology, and dynamics such as flow regimes and flood recurrence at different spatio-temporal aggregation scales. The justification for this assumption was often that when compared with the temporal, spatial, or topical extent of the questions posed to hydrology, such conditions could indeed be considered stationary, and therefore the neglect of certain long-term non-stationarities or feedback effects (even if they were known) would not introduce a large error.

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-649-2014

European Geosciences Union

1027-5606

http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/18/649/2014/

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 18 (2), 2014

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