DOI: 10.5194/hess-21-1107-2017
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85013668743
论文题名: HESS Opinions "catchments as meta-organisms - A new blueprint for hydrological modelling"
作者: Savenije H ; H ; G ; , Hrachowitz M
刊名: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
ISSN: 10275606
出版年: 2017
卷: 21, 期: 2 起始页码: 1107
结束页码: 1116
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Biology
; Ecology
; Ecosystems
; Hydrology
; Moisture
; Runoff
; Environmental conditions
; Essential characteristic
; Functional relationship
; Hydrological functions
; Hydrological modelling
; Hydrological system
; Observation systems
; Spatial organization
; Catchments
; catchment
; conceptual framework
; drainage
; ecosystem function
; heterogeneity
; hydrological modeling
; infiltration
; mobilization
; moisture
; nutrient availability
; survival
; temporal evolution
; water retention
英文摘要: Catchment-scale hydrological models frequently miss essential characteristics of what determines the functioning of catchments. The most important active agent in catchments is the ecosystem. It manipulates and partitions moisture in a way that supports the essential functions of survival and productivity: infiltration of water, retention of moisture, mobilization and retention of nutrients, and drainage. Ecosystems do this in the most efficient way, establishing a continuous, ever-evolving feedback loop with the landscape and climatic drivers. In brief, hydrological systems are alive and have a strong capacity to adjust themselves to prevailing and changing environmental conditions. Although most models take Newtonian theory at heart, as best they can, what they generally miss is Darwinian theory on how an ecosystem evolves and adjusts its environment to maintain crucial hydrological functions. In addition, catchments, such as many other natural systems, do not only evolve over time, but develop features of spatial organization, including surface or sub-surface drainage patterns, as a by-product of this evolution. Models that fail to account for patterns and the associated feedbacks miss a critical element of how systems at the interface of atmosphere, biosphere and pedosphere function. In contrast to what is widely believed, relatively simple, semi-distributed conceptual models have the potential to accommodate organizational features and their temporal evolution in an efficient way, a reason for that being that because their parameters (and their evolution over time) are effective at the modelling scale, and thus integrate natural heterogeneity within the system, they may be directly inferred from observations at the same scale, reducing the need for calibration and related problems. In particular, the emergence of new and more detailed observation systems from space will lead towards a more robust understanding of spatial organization and its evolution. This will further permit the development of relatively simple time-dynamic functional relationships that can meaningfully represent spatial patterns and their evolution over time, even in poorly gauged environments. © Author(s) 2017. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/79246
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作者单位: Department of Water Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Recommended Citation:
Savenije H,H,G,et al. HESS Opinions "catchments as meta-organisms - A new blueprint for hydrological modelling"[J]. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,2017-01-01,21(2)