*Abstract deadline: September 10, 2008.*
This is an announcement for a session at the upcoming AGU Fall Meeting,
15-19 December, San Francisco.
Session H65: Integrated Modeling in Hydrology: Advances in Model
Interoperability, Architectures, and Cyberinfrastructure
Intro:
Questions from policy makers, managers and research progress lead to
increasingly complex integrated environmental modelling questions. This
field covers a wide range of physical processes of the critical zone ranging
and associated schematisations from local meteorology, catchment modelling
(surface and subsurface) from source to sea with various scales and details
(0D, 1D, 2D, 3D modelling) covering hydrodynamics, sediment transport and
morphology, water quality and ecology as well as anthropogenic influences.
Even the integrated modelling of a modest subset of this range of processes
requires a lot of resources and the coupling of various models, model
components and data sources. We intend to bring together various communities
working in this wide research field working on technologies that enable
interoperability and integrated modelling.
Session summary:
This session addresses recent advances in integrating hydrologic models
across scales, disciplines, and media. Many approaches have been proposed
for creating hydrologic modeling frameworks and for coupling domain-specific
or discipline-specific hydrology models. We encourage presentations from
such efforts that address the challenge, approach, and conclusions gained
from integrating hydrologic models. Furthermore, our aim is to encourage
dialog for moving hydrologic modeling from ad hoc coupling approaches to a
generalized integrated modeling approach. In this generalized approach, the
modeling system is designed to be able to include process representations
from across disciplines, scales, and media, and these processes can be
easily added or removed to test scientific hypotheses and better understand
hydrologic function. Thus, we also encourage submissions addressing
scientific and technical challenges in creating such next generation
integrated modeling systems. These include but are not limited to semantic
mediation between earth science disciplines, component-based modeling
architectures, model coupling paradigms, and scaling between spatially and
temporally mismatched models.
Conveners:
Jon Goodall (University of South Carolina), Bert Jagers (Deltares | Delft
Hydraulics), Scott Peckham (University of Colorado), Michael Piasecki
(Drexel University), Jay Famiglietti (University of California
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