New Approaches to Models for the Hydrologic Community

Conveners: Larry Murdoch, Clemson University and Venkat Lakshmi, University of South Carolina , and Jay Famiglietti, UC Irvine

Hydrologic models play a key role in both the advancement of hydrologic science and the predictive contributions that hydrology makes to society. Despite their importance, the development of hydrologic models has been far from ideal. Many legacy models are designed with an application focused on a single hydrologic domain (e.g., groundwater, unsaturated zone, rainfall-runoff, channel hydraulics, land surface-atmosphere, wetlands, lakes), which has promoted a compartmentalization of hydrologic thinking and restricted the ability to analyze processes at hydrologic boundaries. Moreover, traditional methods of code development and publication limit the pace at which innovations can be distributed and evaluated by the hydrologic community.

The purpose of this session is to explore new approaches for developing, distributing, publishing, and supporting models for the hydrologic community, and we invite papers addressing this general theme. An example of one such approach is to use data transfer protocols to link together multiple legacy codes, which allows the resulting combination to retain proven capabilities but expand the range of hydrologic interactions that can be simulated. This approach has been used for more than three decades to develop community atmosphere, ocean, land-surface and coupled climate models, and papers describing applications in hydrology are encouraged. An alternative approach is to develop single, stand-alone codes designed to simulate processes across a range of hydrologic domains and scales. Recent advances in computational methods and software have provided a variety of alternatives for simulating multiple hydrologic processes that go beyond the restrictions of single-domain legacy codes. Papers describing these applications are particularly encouraged. We also invite papers describing innovative methods for publishing and supporting models, and allowing the community to interact with models. Models based on open source code are one example of this approach. In addition, Web-based models have made their debut in hydrology, and papers describing this approach for maintaining models would also be well suited to this session.


Contact Us General Conference Information Key Note Speakers Special Sessions Presenter Instructions Student Fellow Awards Program Social Event Registration Accomodations Travel & Visa Information Sign up for Email Updates Abstract List CMWR Home	Back to Existing Special Sessions >> New Approaches to Models for the Hydrologic Community Conveners: Larry Murdoch, Clemson University and Venkat Lakshmi, University of South Carolina , and Jay Famiglietti, UC Irvine Hydrologic models play a key role in both the advancement of hydrologic science and the predictive contributions that hydrology makes to society. Despite their importance, the development of hydrologic models has been far from ideal. Many legacy models are designed with an application focused on a single hydrologic domain (e.g., groundwater, unsaturated zone, rainfall-runoff, channel hydraulics, land surface-atmosphere, wetlands, lakes), which has promoted a compartmentalization of hydrologic thinking and restricted the ability to analyze processes at hydrologic boundaries. Moreover, traditional methods of code development and publication limit the pace at which innovations can be distributed and evaluated by the hydrologic community. The purpose of this session is to explore new approaches for developing, distributing, publishing, and supporting models for the hydrologic community, and we invite papers addressing this general theme. An example of one such approach is to use data transfer protocols to link together multiple legacy codes, which allows the resulting combination to retain proven capabilities but expand the range of hydrologic interactions that can be simulated. This approach has been used for more than three decades to develop community atmosphere, ocean, land-surface and coupled climate models, and papers describing applications in hydrology are encouraged. An alternative approach is to develop single, stand-alone codes designed to simulate processes across a range of hydrologic domains and scales. Recent advances in computational methods and software have provided a variety of alternatives for simulating multiple hydrologic processes that go beyond the restrictions of single-domain legacy codes. Papers describing these applications are particularly encouraged. We also invite papers describing innovative methods for publishing and supporting models, and allowing the community to interact with models. Models based on open source code are one example of this approach. In addition, Web-based models have made their debut in hydrology, and papers describing this approach for maintaining models would also be well suited to this session.
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