Özet
This paper is the outcome of a community initiative to identify major unsolved scientific problems in hydrology motivated by a need for stronger harmonisation of research efforts. The procedure involved a public consultation through online media, followed by two workshops through which a large number of potential science questions were collated, prioritised, and synthesised. In spite of the diversity of the participants (230 scientists in total), the process revealed much about community priorities and the state of our science: a preference for continuity in research questions rather than radical departures or redirections from past and current work. Questions remain focused on the process-based understanding of hydrological variability and causality at all space and time scales. Increased attention to environmental change drives a new emphasis on understanding how change propagates across interfaces within the hydrological system and across disciplinary boundaries. In particular, the expansion of the human footprint raises a new set of questions related to human interactions with nature and water cycle feedbacks in the context of complex water management problems. We hope that this reflection and synthesis of the 23 unsolved problems in hydrology will help guide research efforts for some years to come.
Orijinal dil | İngilizce |
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Sayfa (başlangıç-bitiş) | 1141-1158 |
Sayfa sayısı | 18 |
Dergi | Hydrological Sciences Journal |
Hacim | 64 |
Basın numarası | 10 |
DOI'lar | |
Yayın durumu | Yayınlandı - 27 Tem 2019 |
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Publisher Copyright:© 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Finansman
We would like to thank the members of the IAHS, EGU, AGU and IAH for supporting this initiative. The LinkedIn group and overall secretariat was hosted by the IAHS, the Splinter meeting by EGU and the Vienna Catchment Science Symposium by the Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems (DK W1219-N28) funded by the Austrian Science Funds (FWF).
Finansörler | Finansör numarası |
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Austrian Science Funds | |
Vienna | |
Al Ghurair University | |
International Association of Hydrological Sciences | |
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council | BBS/E/C/000I0330 |
European Geosciences Union | DK W1219-N28 |
Austrian Science Fund |