Hydroclimatic Variability and Predictability: A Survey of Recent Research

Randal D Koster; Alan K Betts; Paul A Dirmeyer; Marc Bierkens; Katrina E Bennett; Stephen J Déry; Jason P Evans; Rong Fu; Felipe Hernandez; L Ruby Leung; Xu Liang; Muhammad Masood; Hubert Savenije; Guiling Wang; Xing Yuan

doi:10.5194/hess-21-3777-2017

Hydroclimatic Variability and Predictability: A Survey of Recent Research

Hydrol Earth Syst Sci. 2017;21(7):3777-3798. doi: 10.5194/hess-21-3777-2017. Epub 2017 Jul 25.

Authors

Randal D Koster¹, Alan K Betts², Paul A Dirmeyer³, Marc Bierkens⁴, Katrina E Bennett⁵, Stephen J Déry⁶, Jason P Evans⁷, Rong Fu⁸, Felipe Hernandez⁹, L Ruby Leung¹⁰, Xu Liang⁹, Muhammad Masood¹¹, Hubert Savenije¹², Guiling Wang¹³, Xing Yuan¹⁴

Affiliations

¹ Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, USA.
² Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT, USA.
³ Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
⁴ Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
⁵ Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, USA.
⁶ Environmental Science and Engineering Program, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.
⁷ Climate Change Research Centre and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, UNSW, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁸ Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁹ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
¹⁰ Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA, USA.
¹¹ Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB), Design Circle - 1, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
¹² Water Resources Section, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands.
¹³ Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Center for Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
¹⁴ CAS Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia (RCE-TEA), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China.

Abstract

Recent research in large-scale hydroclimatic variability is surveyed, focusing on five topics: (i) variability in general, (ii) droughts, (iii) floods, (iv) land-atmosphere coupling, and (v) hydroclimatic prediction. Each surveyed topic is supplemented by illustrative examples of recent research, as presented at a 2016 symposium honoring the career of Professor Eric Wood. Taken together, the recent literature and the illustrative examples clearly show that current research into hydroclimatic variability is strong, vibrant, and multifaceted.

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