Human impacts, complexity, variability and non-homogeneity: four dilemmas for the water resources modeller
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2006
Authors
Daniell, T.
Daniell, K.
Editors
Demuth, S.
Gustard, A.
Planos, E.
scatena, F.
Servat, E.
Gustard, A.
Planos, E.
scatena, F.
Servat, E.
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Conference paper
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Climate variability and change : hydrological impacts: [proceedings of the Fifth FRIEND World Conference held at Havana, Cuba, November 2006] / Siegfried Demuth ... [et al.] (eds.): pp.10-15
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FRIEND 2006 (5th : 2006 : Havana, Cuba)
Abstract
Water modellers are commonly faced with a range of dilemmas due to the complex, uncertain and conflicting nature of the problems currently studied. The limitations of present techniques to deal with the variability and non-homogeneity of future data sets in complex water systems are examined. The main limitations are in part due to changing human behaviour and linked anthropogenic land- and water-use impacts, as well as the uncertainty of climatic variability. Suggestions and questions for future practice are raised, as are technical based methods which are more likely to provide successful outcomes for integrated river basin management.
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FRIEND (Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data)