Convergent and Transdisciplinary Integration: On the Future of Integrated Modeling of Human‐Water Systems
Water Resources Research,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
61(2)
Published: Feb. 1, 2025
Abstract
The
notion
of
convergent
and
transdisciplinary
integration,
which
is
about
braiding
together
different
knowledge
systems,
becoming
the
mantra
numerous
initiatives
aimed
at
tackling
pressing
water
challenges.
Yet,
transition
from
rhetoric
to
actual
implementation
impeded
by
incongruence
in
semantics,
methodologies,
discourse
among
disciplinary
scientists
societal
actors.
Here,
we
embrace
“integrated
modeling”—both
quantitatively
qualitatively—as
a
vital
exploratory
instrument
advance
such
providing
means
navigate
complexity
manage
uncertainty
associated
with
understanding,
diagnosing,
predicting,
governing
human‐water
systems.
From
this
standpoint,
confront
barriers
offering
seven
focused
reviews
syntheses
existing
missing
links
across
frontiers
distinguishing
surface
groundwater
hydrology,
engineering,
social
sciences,
economics,
Indigenous
place‐based
knowledge,
studies
other
interconnected
natural
systems
as
atmosphere,
cryosphere,
ecosphere.
While
there
are,
arguably,
no
bounds
pursuit
inclusivity
representing
spectrum
human
processes
around
resources,
advocate
that
integrated
modeling
can
provide
approach
delineating
scope
through
lens
three
fundamental
questions:
(a)
What
“purpose”?
(b)
constitutes
sound
“boundary
judgment”?
(c)
are
“critical
uncertainties”
their
compounding
effects?
More
broadly,
call
for
investigating
what
warranted
“systems
complexity,”
opposed
unjustified
“computational
complexity”
when
complex
human‐natural
careful
attention
interdependencies
feedbacks,
scaling
issues,
nonlinear
dynamics
thresholds,
hysteresis,
time
lags,
legacy
effects.
Language: Английский
Land surface hydrological modelling of the Mackenzie River Basin: Parametrization to simulate streamflow and permafrost dynamics
Journal of Hydrology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 133134 - 133134
Published: March 1, 2025
Language: Английский
Assessment and Application of Multi-Source Precipitation Products in Cold Regions Based on the Improved SWAT Model
Remote Sensing,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
16(22), P. 4132 - 4132
Published: Nov. 6, 2024
In
hydrological
modeling,
the
accuracy
of
precipitation
data
and
reflection
model’s
physical
mechanisms
are
crucial
for
accurately
describing
processes.
Identifying
reliable
sources
exploring
reasonable
evolution
hydrology
water
resources
research
in
high-altitude
mountainous
regions
with
sparse
stations
limited
constitute
a
significant
challenge
focus
field
hydrology.
This
study
focuses
on
Yarkant
River
Basin
Xinjiang,
which
originates
from
glaciers
contains
substantial
amount
meltwater
runoff.
A
dynamic
glacier
melt
module
considering
synergistic
effects
multiple
meteorological
factors
was
developed
integrated
into
original
Soil
Water
Assessment
Tool
(SWAT)
model.
Four
datasets
(ERA5-land,
MSWEP,
CMA
V2.0,
CHM-PRE)
were
selected
to
train
model,
including
remote
sensing
products
station-interpolated
data.
The
applicability
improved
SWAT
model
source
region
evaluated
analyzed
using
statistical
indicators,
characteristic
values,
watershed
runoff
simulation
effectiveness.
optimal
dataset
further
used
analyze
characteristics
basin.
results
revealed
following:
(1)
fills
gap
respect
more
closely
aligning
actual
variation
patterns
area,
better
process.
(2)
V2.0
has
best
area.
is
specifically
reflected
rationality
spatial
temporal
distribution
inverted
precipitation,
observed
capturing
events
characteristics,
goodness
fit
driving
models,
precision
reflecting
composition
runoff,
all
superior
those
pertaining
other
products.
(3)
calculated
informed
by
shows
that
during
period,
basin
formed
pattern
positive–negative
balance
demarcation
at
36.5°
N,
featuring
melting
higher
latitudes
accumulation
lower
latitudes.
this
importance
hydrometeorological
applications
region.
Language: Английский