Insights into Hydrological Forcings: New Modelling Challenges and Monitoring Opportunities
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2020) | Viewed by 359
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Improved understanding of hydrological processes and their resulting loads on water infrastructure play a crucial role in facing the challenges associated with environmental change and the implied uncertainty and risks to our society. In recent years, great advances have been made in the development of new monitoring systems and modelling approaches to support the estimation and prediction of hydrological variables. However, reliable quantitative analysis methods are still lacking due to the complexity and large variability of hydrological processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. As hydrological analysis and modelling heavily rely on data records, there exists a need of careful investigations to form reliable inferences based on reliable observations. In this Special Issue, we welcome original research papers focusing on monitoring and modelling hydrological forcings with an emphasis on:
- The recognition, assessment and explicit treatment of different sources of uncertainty in measuring and predicting hydrological variables;
- opportunities and challenges of technological advances in monitoring systems for hydrology;
- stochastic modelling of hydrological extremes;
- novel data assimilation techniques for conventional and non-conventional sensors (space- and ground-based sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles, ground-based distributed networks, smart sensors, citizen observations and feedback);
- transfer of hydrological information across spatial and temporal scales.
Prof. Francesco Napolitano
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Rainfall modelling
- Runoff modelling
- Monitoring systems
- Hydrological extremes
- Disaggregation and downscaling
- Stochastic hydrology
- Data assimilation
- Uncertainty analysis
