Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective

Günter Blöschl; Marc F P Bierkens; Antonio Chambel; Christophe Cudennec; Georgia Destouni; Aldo Fiori; James W Kirchner; Jeffrey J Mcdonnell; Hubert Savenije; Murugesu Sivapalan; Christine Stumpp; Elena Toth; Elena Volpi; Gemma Carr; Claire Lupton; Josè Salinas; Borbála Széles; Alberto Viglione; Hafzullah Aksoy; Scott T. Allen; Anam Amin; Vazken Andréassian; Berit Arheimer; Santosh K. Aryal; Victor Baker; Earl Bardsley; Marlies H. Barendrecht; Alena Bartosova; Okke Batelaan; Wouter R. Berghuijs; Keith Beven; Theresa Blume; Thom Bogaard; Pablo Borges de Amorim; Michael E. Böttcher; Gilles Boulet; Korbinian Breinl; Mitja Brilly; Luca Brocca; Wouter Buytaert; Attilio Castellarin; Andrea Castelletti; Xiaohong Chen; Yangbo Chen; Yuanfang Chen; Peter Chifflard; Pierluigi Claps; Martyn Clark; Adrian L. Collins; Barry Croke; Annette Dathe; Paula C. David; Felipe P.J. de Barros; Gerrit de Rooij; Giuliano Di Baldassarre; Jessica M. Driscoll; Doris Duethmann; Ravindra Dwivedi; Ebru Eris; William H. Farmer; James Feiccabrino; Grant Ferguson; Ennio Ferrari; Stefano Ferraris; Benjamin Fersch; David Finger; Laura Foglia; Keirnan Fowler; Boris Gartsman; Simon Gascoin; Eric Gaume; Alexander Gelfan; Josie Geris; Shervan Gharari; Tom Gleeson; Miriam Glendell; Alena Gonzalez Bevacqua; María P. González-Dugo; Salvatore Grimaldi; Akhilendra Bhushan Gupta; Björn Guse; Dawei Han; David Hannah; Adrian Harpold; Stefan Haun; Kate Heal; Kay Helfricht; Mathew Herrnegger; Matthew Hipsey; Hana Hlaváčiková; Clara Hohmann; Ladislav Holko; Christopher Hopkinson; Markus Hrachowitz; Tissa Illangasekare; Azhar Inam; Camyla Innocente; Erkan Istanbulluoglu; Ben Jarihani; Zahra Kalantari; Andis Kalvans; Sonu Khanal; Sina Khatami; Jens Kiesel; Mike Kirkby; Wouter Knoben; Krzysztof Kochanek; Silvia Kohnova; Alla Kolechkina; Stefan Krause; David Kreamer; Heidi Kreibich; Harald Kunstmann; Holger Lange; Margarida L. R. Liberato; Eric Lindquist; Timothy Link; Junguo Liu; Daniel Peter Loucks; Charles Luce; Gil Mahe; Olga Makarieva; Julien Malard; Shamshagul Mashtayeva; Shreedhar Maskey; Josep Mas-Pla; Maria Mavrova-Guirguinova; Maurizio Mazzoleni; Sebastian Mernild; Bruce Dudley Misstear; Alberto Montanari; Hannes Müller-Thomy; Alireza Nabizadeh; Fernando Nardi; Christopher Neale; Nataliia Nesterova; Bakhram Nurtaev; Vincent O. Odongo; Subhabrata Panda; Saket Pande; Zhonghe Pang; Georgia Papacharalampous; Charles Perrin; Laurent Pfister; Rafael Pimentel; María José Polo; David Post; Cristina Prieto Sierra; Maria-Helena Ramos; Maik Renner; José Eduardo Reynolds; Elena Ridolfi; Riccardo Rigon; Monica Riva; David E. Robertson; Renzo Rosso; Tirthankar Roy; João H. M. Sá; Gianfausto Salvadori; Mel Sandells; Bettina Schaefli; Andreas Schumann; Anna Scolobig; Jan Seibert; Eric Servat; Mojtaba Shafiei; Ashish Sharma; Moussa Sidibe; Roy C. Sidle; Thomas Skaugen; Hugh Smith; Sabine M. Spiessl; Lina Stein; Ingelin Steinsland; Ulrich Strasser; Bob Su; Jan Szolgay; David Tarboton; Flavia Tauro; Guillaume Thirel; Fuqiang Tian; Rui Tong; Kamshat Tussupova; Hristos Tyralis; Remko Uijlenhoet; Rens van Beek; Ruud J. van der Ent; Martine van Der Ploeg; Anne F. van Loon; Ilja van Meerveld; Ronald van Nooijen; Pieter R. van Oel; Jean-Philippe Vidal; Jana von Freyberg; Sergiy Vorogushyn; Przemyslaw Wachniew; Andrew J. Wade; Philip Ward; Ida K. Westerberg; Christopher White; Eric F. Wood; Ross Woods; Zongxue Xu; Koray K. Yilmaz; Yongqiang Zhang

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Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective

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Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective

Günter Blöschl, Marc F P Bierkens, Antonio Chambel, Christophe Cudennec, Georgia Destouni, Aldo Fiori, James W Kirchner, Jeffrey J Mcdonnell, Hubert Savenije, Murugesu Sivapalan, …

Hydrological Sciences Journal, Vol.64(10), pp.1141-1158

2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2019.1620507

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research agenda

interdisciplinary

knowledge gaps

hydrology

science questions

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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.

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Title: Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective
Creators - without role: Günter Blöschl - TU Wien
Marc F P Bierkens - Utrecht University
Antonio Chambel - University of Évora
Christophe Cudennec - Institut Agro Rennes-Angers
Georgia Destouni - Stockholm University
Aldo Fiori - Roma Tre University
James W Kirchner - ETH Zurich
Jeffrey J Mcdonnell - Global Institute for Water Security
Hubert Savenije - Delft University of Technology
Murugesu Sivapalan - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Christine Stumpp - BOKU University
Elena Toth - University of Bologna
Elena Volpi - Roma Tre University
Gemma Carr - TU Wien
Claire Lupton - HR Wallingford
Josè Salinas - TU Wien
Borbála Széles - TU Wien
Alberto Viglione - Polytechnic University of Turin
Hafzullah Aksoy - Istanbul Technical University
Scott T. Allen - ETH Zurich
Anam Amin - University of Padua
Vazken Andréassian - Hydrosystèmes continentaux anthropisés : ressources, risques, restauration
Berit Arheimer - Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Santosh K. Aryal - CSIRO Land and Water
Victor Baker - University of Arizona
Earl Bardsley - University of Waikato
Marlies H. Barendrecht - TU Wien
Alena Bartosova - Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Okke Batelaan - National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training
Wouter R. Berghuijs - ETH Zurich
Keith Beven - Lancaster University
Theresa Blume - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Thom Bogaard - Delft University of Technology
Pablo Borges de Amorim
Michael E. Böttcher - Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Gilles Boulet - Université de Toulouse
Korbinian Breinl - TU Wien
Mitja Brilly - Geodetic Institute of Slovenia
Luca Brocca - Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection
Wouter Buytaert - Imperial College London
Attilio Castellarin - University of Bologna
Andrea Castelletti - Politecnico di Milano
Xiaohong Chen - Sun Yat-sen University
Yangbo Chen - Sun Yat-sen University
Yuanfang Chen - Hohai University
Peter Chifflard - Philipps University of Marburg
Pierluigi Claps - Polytechnic University of Turin
Martyn Clark - University of Saskatchewan
Adrian L. Collins - Rothamsted Research
Barry Croke - Australian National University
Annette Dathe - Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
Paula C. David - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Felipe P.J. de Barros - University of Southern California
Gerrit de Rooij - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Giuliano Di Baldassarre - Uppsala University
Jessica M. Driscoll - United States Geological Survey
Doris Duethmann - TU Wien
Ravindra Dwivedi - University of Arizona
Ebru Eris - Ege University
William H. Farmer - United States Geological Survey
James Feiccabrino - Lund University
Grant Ferguson - University of Saskatchewan
Ennio Ferrari - University of Calabria
Stefano Ferraris - Polytechnic University of Turin
Benjamin Fersch - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
David Finger - Reykjavík University
Laura Foglia - University of California, Davis
Keirnan Fowler - University of Melbourne
Boris Gartsman
Simon Gascoin - Université de Toulouse
Eric Gaume - Département Géotechnique, Eau et Risques
Alexander Gelfan - Lomonosov Moscow State University
Josie Geris - University of Aberdeen
Shervan Gharari - University of Saskatchewan
Tom Gleeson - University of Victoria
Miriam Glendell - James Hutton Institute
Alena Gonzalez Bevacqua
María P. González-Dugo - Andalusian Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training
Salvatore Grimaldi - Università degli Studi della Tuscia
Akhilendra Bhushan Gupta - Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur
Björn Guse - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Dawei Han - University of Bristol
David Hannah - University of Birmingham
Adrian Harpold - University of Nevada, Reno
Stefan Haun - University of Stuttgart
Kate Heal - University of Edinburgh
Kay Helfricht - Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research
Mathew Herrnegger - BOKU University
Matthew Hipsey - University of Western Australia
Hana Hlaváčiková - Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute
Clara Hohmann - University of Graz
Ladislav Holko - Slovak Academy of Sciences
Christopher Hopkinson - University of Lethbridge
Markus Hrachowitz - Delft University of Technology
Tissa Illangasekare - Colorado School of Mines
Azhar Inam - McGill University
Camyla Innocente
Erkan Istanbulluoglu - University of Washington
Ben Jarihani - University of the Sunshine Coast
Zahra Kalantari - Bolin Centre for Climate Research
Andis Kalvans - University of Latvia
Sonu Khanal
Sina Khatami - University of Melbourne
Jens Kiesel - Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
Mike Kirkby - University of Leeds
Wouter Knoben - University of Bristol
Krzysztof Kochanek - Institute of Geophysics
Silvia Kohnova - Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Alla Kolechkina - Delft University of Technology
Stefan Krause - University of Birmingham
David Kreamer - University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Heidi Kreibich - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Harald Kunstmann - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Holger Lange - Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
Margarida L. R. Liberato - University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
Eric Lindquist - Boise State University
Timothy Link - University of Idaho
Junguo Liu - Southern University of Science and Technology
Daniel Peter Loucks - Cornell University
Charles Luce - US Forest Service
Gil Mahe - Université de Montpellier, Hydrosciences Montpellier - HSM
Olga Makarieva - Melnikov Permafrost Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science
Julien Malard - McGill University
Shamshagul Mashtayeva - L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University
Shreedhar Maskey - IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Josep Mas-Pla - Catalan Institute for Water Research
Maria Mavrova-Guirguinova - University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy
Maurizio Mazzoleni - Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science
Sebastian Mernild - Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
Bruce Dudley Misstear
Alberto Montanari - University of Bologna
Hannes Müller-Thomy - TU Wien
Alireza Nabizadeh - Shiraz University
Fernando Nardi - University for Foreigners Perugia
Christopher Neale
Nataliia Nesterova - State Hydrological Institute
Bakhram Nurtaev
Vincent O. Odongo - Uppsala University
Subhabrata Panda - Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya
Saket Pande - Delft University of Technology
Zhonghe Pang - Institute of Geology and Geophysics
Georgia Papacharalampous - National Technical University of Athens
Charles Perrin - Hydrosystèmes continentaux anthropisés : ressources, risques, restauration
Laurent Pfister - University of Luxembourg
Rafael Pimentel - Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra
María José Polo - University of Córdoba
David Post - CSIRO Land and Water
Cristina Prieto Sierra
Maria-Helena Ramos - Hydrosystèmes continentaux anthropisés : ressources, risques, restauration
Maik Renner - Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
José Eduardo Reynolds - Uppsala University
Elena Ridolfi - Uppsala University
Riccardo Rigon - University of Trento
Monica Riva - Politecnico di Milano
David E. Robertson - CSIRO Land and Water
Renzo Rosso - Politecnico di Milano
Tirthankar Roy - Princeton University
João H. M. Sá - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Gianfausto Salvadori - University of Salento
Mel Sandells
Bettina Schaefli - University of Lausanne
Andreas Schumann - Ruhr University Bochum
Anna Scolobig - University of Geneva
Jan Seibert - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Eric Servat - Université de Montpellier, Hydrosciences Montpellier - HSM
Mojtaba Shafiei - Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research
Ashish Sharma - UNSW Sydney
Moussa Sidibe - Coventry University
Roy C. Sidle - University of the Sunshine Coast
Thomas Skaugen - Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate
Hugh Smith - Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
Sabine M. Spiessl
Lina Stein - University of Bristol
Ingelin Steinsland - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Ulrich Strasser - Universität Innsbruck
Bob Su
Jan Szolgay - Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
David Tarboton - Utah State University
Flavia Tauro - Università degli Studi della Tuscia
Guillaume Thirel - Hydrosystèmes continentaux anthropisés : ressources, risques, restauration
Fuqiang Tian - Tsinghua University
Rui Tong - TU Wien
Kamshat Tussupova - Lund University
Hristos Tyralis - Hellenic Air Force
Remko Uijlenhoet - Wageningen University & Research
Rens van Beek - Utrecht University
Ruud J. van der Ent - Delft University of Technology
Martine van Der Ploeg - Wageningen University & Research
Anne F. van Loon - University of Birmingham
Ilja van Meerveld - University of Zurich
Ronald van Nooijen - Delft University of Technology
Pieter R. van Oel - Wageningen University & Research
Jean-Philippe Vidal - RiverLy - Fonctionnement des hydrosystèmes
Jana von Freyberg - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Sergiy Vorogushyn - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Przemyslaw Wachniew
Andrew J. Wade - University of Reading
Philip Ward - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ida K. Westerberg - IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute
Christopher White - University of Strathclyde
Eric F. Wood - Princeton University
Ross Woods - University of Bristol
Zongxue Xu - Beijing Normal University
Koray K. Yilmaz
Yongqiang Zhang - Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research
Publication Details: Hydrological Sciences Journal, Vol.64(10), pp.1141-1158
Grant note: Austrian Science Fund (FWF) : DK W1219-N28
Identifiers: 9937869109311
Academic Unit: Hydrosciences Montpellier - HSM
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Local Fields: hal-02280747