PUB 2012: Theme 1

PUB SYMPOSIUM 2012

Theme 1: Catchment classification - Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Convener: Ross Woods ([email protected])
Co-conveners: Markus Hrachowitz, Murugesu Sivapalan ([email protected]; [email protected])

Hydrological response patterns are controlled by the subtle interplay of boundary conditions in catchments such as climate, topography, geology and soil characteristics. To facilitate meaningful model transferability between different catchments, which is one of the core objectives of the PUB initiative, metrics of catchment similarity, relating the hydrological response to the catchment boundary conditions have to be identified. The effectively unobservable spatial heterogeneity of most of these boundary conditions, however, raises the need for identifying generally applicable catchment integrated signatures and organizational principles in order to create catchment similarity frameworks. Such similarity frameworks, based on the relationship of hydrological response patterns and catchment boundary conditions can then be used as the basis for catchment classification schemes, thereby providing means to infer hydrological behaviour of ungauged basins.
In this session we invite contributions investigating and assessing ways of conceptualizing catchment similarity and their utility for the development of catchment classification schemes.

Oral Programme (15 minute talks)

Time Speaker Title
13:00-13:15 Makoto Tani Assigning higher priority to catchment classification in the runoff prediction
13:15-13:30 Andras Bardossy Selection of donor catchments for hydrological model parameter transfer
13:30-13:45 Endalkachew Bogale Gelaw Hydrologic regionalization of Abbay river basin, Ethiopia
13:45-14:00 Rolf Weingartner How can we benefit from basin similarity in hydrological studies? (invited)
14:00-14:15 Lakshman Nandagiri Catchment classification by scaling of flood frequency curves
14:15-14:30 Genevieve Ali From statistical inference to runoff process identification: can watershed classification do the trick? (invited)
14:30-15:00
Discussion and Future Directions
15:00-15:30  Coffee, Tea & Posters

15:30-15:45 Jeff McDonnell A collision of classification and theory: Moving beyond the variable source area concept (invited)
15:45-16:00 Bargaoui Zoubeida Study of water budget model transferability through parameters kernel distribution
16:00-16:15 Roger Moussa A framework for modeling ungauged and poorly-gauged catchments coupling hydrological signatures and channel network morphometric properties (invited)
16:15-16:30 Ross Woods Combining classification and theoretical modelling for PUB (invited)
16:30-16:45 Dingbao Wang Linking base flow to perennial and ephermeral stream through comparative analysis (invited)
16:45-17:00 Hubert Savenije Can we read the landscape and translate it into model structures? (invited)
17:00-17:30 Discussion and Future Directions

 

Poster Programme

Author Title
Hylke Beck Regionalization of catchment behavior to improve predictions in ungauged basins: a global exercise
Pierluigi Claps Spatially smooth regional flow duration curves estimation in ungauged basins
Emily Huxter Streamflow regime characteristics of intermittent and perennial strams in the Okanagan, British Columbia
Anne van Loon Catchment and climate control on global hydrological drought across the world
Miaolin Wang Distributed hydrologic simulation based on the land characteristics in the Jinsha River in China
Muhammad Waqar Design flood estimation for ungauged or poorly gauged catchments by using GIUH model with the aid of remote sensing and GIS


 
 
 

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