Role of integrated surface and groundwater modeling in the changing climate and land use for sustainability

Session ID#: 282293

Session Description:
Integrated surface-groundwater modeling provides a critical framework for evaluating water sustainability under the combined pressures of climate change and dynamic land use. By explicitly representing interactions between surface hydrology, subsurface flow, and human interventions, these approaches improve understanding of feedbacks among precipitation variability, evapotranspiration, recharge, runoff, and water use. This session invites contributions employing modeling frameworks across local to global scales that assess changes in water availability and provide water management solutions under non-stationary conditions. We particularly encourage studies that combine process-based numerical models with remote sensing, data assimilation, and AI-driven approaches to enhance predictive capability, as well as those evaluating the impacts of land use change, urbanization, and agricultural intensification.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1655 Water cycles [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1830 Groundwater/surface water interaction [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener:  Soumendra Nath Bhanja, PhD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  L Surinaidu, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India, Elmira Hassanzadeh, Polytechnique Montreal, Civil, Geological, and Mining Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada and J Mahesh, International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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