Hydrological information is more available than ever, but substantial knowledge gaps remain which limit our ability to coherently explain and connect hydrological phenomena across space and time scales. Hydrological synthesis is the combination of components or elements of our knowledge to form a connected whole. These connections may be across geographic locations and scales, or across temporal windows and scales. This session will focus on the investigation of similarities and patterns among catchment hydrological responses and processes.
We welcome contributions that e.g. focus on:
- Using field observations across multiple sites or large sample hydrology datasets, to synthesize process-based explanations of hydrological phenomena
- Connections between residence time and catchment response time
- Theoretical explanations of hydrological phenomena across multiple places or scales, for example, what is the link of event recession timescales to seasonal streamflow patterns?
- Connections among hydrological signatures at different time scales, e.g. connection of the streamflow seasonality to the long term mean flow
- New approaches to use modelling tools to make process and pattern interpretations
- New methods to identify hydrological patterns in data