Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models

MP Clark, Y Fan, DM Lawrence… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Many of the scientific and societal challenges in understanding and preparing for global
environmental change rest upon our ability to understand and predict the water cycle …

Scaling, similarity, and the fourth paradigm for hydrology

CD Peters-Lidard, M Clark… - Hydrology and earth …, 2017 - hess.copernicus.org
In this synthesis paper addressing hydrologic scaling and similarity, we posit that roadblocks
in the search for universal laws of hydrology are hindered by our focus on computational …

Connections between groundwater flow and transpiration partitioning

RM Maxwell, LE Condon - Science, 2016 - science.org
Understanding freshwater fluxes at continental scales will help us better predict hydrologic
response and manage our terrestrial water resources. The partitioning of evapotranspiration …

The evolution of process-based hydrologic models: historical challenges and the collective quest for physical realism

MP Clark, MFP Bierkens, L Samaniego… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2017 - hess.copernicus.org
The diversity in hydrologic models has historically led to great controversy on the correct
approach to process-based hydrologic modeling, with debates centered on the adequacy of …

A unified approach for process‐based hydrologic modeling: 1. Modeling concept

MP Clark, B Nijssen, JD Lundquist… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This work advances a unified approach to process‐based hydrologic modeling to enable
controlled and systematic evaluation of multiple model representations (hypotheses) of …

Pursuing the method of multiple working hypotheses for hydrological modeling

MP Clark, D Kavetski, F Fenicia - Water Resources Research, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ambiguities in the representation of environmental processes have manifested themselves
in a plethora of hydrological models, differing in almost every aspect of their …

A high-resolution simulation of groundwater and surface water over most of the continental US with the integrated hydrologic model ParFlow v3

RM Maxwell, LE Condon… - Geoscientific model …, 2015 - gmd.copernicus.org
Interactions between surface and groundwater systems are well-established theoretically
and observationally. While numerical models that solve both surface and subsurface flow …

Surface‐subsurface model intercomparison: A first set of benchmark results to diagnose integrated hydrology and feedbacks

RM Maxwell, M Putti, S Meyerhoff… - Water resources …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
There are a growing number of large‐scale, complex hydrologic models that are capable of
simulating integrated surface and subsurface flow. Many are coupled to land‐surface energy …

The integrated hydrologic model intercomparison project, IH‐MIP2: A second set of benchmark results to diagnose integrated hydrology and feedbacks

S Kollet, M Sulis, RM Maxwell… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Emphasizing the physical intricacies of integrated hydrology and feedbacks in simulating
connected, variably saturated groundwater‐surface water systems, the Integrated …

A unified approach for process‐based hydrologic modeling: 2. Model implementation and case studies

MP Clark, B Nijssen, JD Lundquist… - Water resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This work advances a unified approach to process‐based hydrologic modeling, which we
term the “Structure for Unifying Multiple Modeling Alternatives (SUMMA).” The modeling …