Hydrological information is more available than ever, but substantial knowledge gaps remain which limit our ability to coherently explain and connect hydrological phenomena across spatial and temporal scales. Hydrological synthesis represents efforts to combine components or elements of existing knowledge to form a connected whole. These connections may be across geographic locations and scales, or across temporal windows and scales. This session will focus on the investigation of similarities and patterns among catchment hydrological responses and processes.
We welcome contributions that, e.g., focus on:
- Synthesis across places: using field observations across multiple sites or large sample hydrology datasets, to synthesize process-based explanations of hydrological phenomena
- Synthesis across timescales: connections between characteristic timescales of catchments, e.g., residence time and catchment response time
- Synthesis across processes: theoretical explanations of hydrological phenomena across multiple places or scales, e.g., what is the link of event recession timescales to seasonal streamflow patterns?
- Synthesis across signatures: connections among hydrological signatures at different time scales, e.g. connection of the streamflow seasonality to the long term mean flow
- Synthesis across models: new approaches to use modelling tools to make process and pattern interpretations
- Synthesis across data: new methods to identify hydrological patterns in data