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Session Proposal: Challenges and Solutions for Hydrologic Scaling Across Multiple Processes and Scales (AGU25)

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Challenges and Solutions for Hydrologic Scaling Across Multiple Processes and Scales

Session ID#: 250833

Session Description:
Hydrologic applications demand predictions across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, yet our process understanding is often constrained to specific scales. This discrepancy introduces fundamental challenges due to nonlinear dynamics, multi-scale heterogeneity, and emergent behaviors at scale transitions. Consequently, hydrologic models designed for a given scale frequently rely on complex closure schemes and ad hoc parameterizations to represent unresolved sub-scale processes. This session invites contributions that tackle the long-standing scaling challenge in hydrology and earth system science. We particularly encourage studies that integrate information across scales—spatial or temporal—and explore the implications of scale mismatches for modeling, data analysis, and scientific inference. Approaches may include theoretical or empirical work, process-based or conceptual modeling, data assimilation techniques, and machine learning, including physics-informed models. We especially welcome innovative, exploratory efforts and insights from unsuccessful attempts that reveal structural limitations or inspire future directions.
Index Terms:

1804 Catchment [HYDROLOGY]
1839 Hydrologic scaling [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1873 Uncertainty assessment [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener:  Antonio Alves Meira Neto, Colorado State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, United States
Conveners:  Hannes H Bauser, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Department of Geoscience, Las Vegas, United States and Minseok Kim, Pusan National University, Civil Engineering, Busan, South Korea
Student/Early Career Convener:  Esther Xu Fei, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, United States
 
Interpretation of the Budyko Framework for Monthly Evapotranspiration Prediction of Individual Basins (1847949)
Hao Sun1, Xingwang Wang1, Yanping Qu1, Juan Lyu1, Hehe Cai2 and Xuejun Zhang1, (1)China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, China, (2)Information Center, Ministry of Water Resources of the People’s Republic of China, Beijing, China
 
Hydrological impacts of nitrogen fertilization in a tile-drained watershed under climate change and varying spatial scales (1903896)
Minah KIM1, Juseong Lee1, Rabin Bhattarai2 and Hanseok Jeong1, (1)Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Urbana, United States
 
Development of a Three-dimensional groundwater flow model for application to large scale problem (1938207)
Yosuke Miura, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan and Kei Yoshimura, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan
 
How do you quantify a subsurface moisture deficit at the basin scale? (1952244)
Dana Ariel Lapides, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, United States, William Jesse Hahm, Simon Fraser University, Geography, Burnaby, BC, Canada, Daniella Marie Rempe, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States and David Dralle, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Davis, United States
 
Hitting The Road: What controls inundation in low-order streams traversing transportation networks? (1964725)
Berina Kilicarslan1, Omid Emamjomehzadeh1 and Omar Wani2, (1)New York University, Tandon School of Engineering, New York, United States, (2)New York University, Tandon School of Engineering, New York, NY, United States
 
Developing a Conceptual Model to predict river Intermittency from Hydroclimatic Parameters (1985925)
Najam us Saqib Fraz, Colorado State University Fort Collins, FortCollins, CO, UNITED STATES and Antonio Alves Meira Neto, Colorado State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, United States
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