Investigating the nexus of climate, energy, water, and land at decision-relevant scales: the Platform for Regional Integrated Modeling and Analysis (PRIMA)

Kraucunas, Ian; Clarke, Leon; Dirks, James A.; Hathaway, John E.; Hejazi, Mohamad; Hibbard, Kathy; Huang, Maoyi; Cui, Jin; Kintner-Meyer, Michael Cw; Dam, Kerstin Kleese van; Leung, Ruby; Li, Hongyi; Moss, Richard H.; Peterson, Michael R.; Rice, Jennie S.; Scott, Michael J.; Thomson, Allison M.; Voisin, Nathalie; West, Tristram O.

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“…Currently, many existing and new ESMs are being developed to resolve coupled human and natural systems, including representation of resource management activities [Pokhrel et al, 2012;Adam et al, 2014;Kraucunas et al, 2014]. CLM has been developed to represent maize, soybean, and spring wheat including management practices such as fertilizer application, residue management, and harvest [Drewniak et al, 2013]; irrigation from surface water [Sacks et al, 2009;Leng et al, 2013] and from groundwater [Leng et al, 2014].…”

Section: Human Impacts On the Terrestrial Water Cyclementioning

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Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models

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Water Resources Research

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Many of the scientific and societal challenges in understanding and preparing for global environmental change rest upon our ability to understand and predict the water cycle change at large river basin, continent, and global scales. However, current large-scale land models (as a component of Earth System Models, or ESMs) do not yet reflect the best hydrologic process understanding or utilize the large amount of hydrologic observations for model testing. This paper discusses the opportunities and key challenges to improve hydrologic process representations and benchmarking in ESM land models, suggesting that (1) land model development can benefit from recent advances in hydrology, both through incorporating key processes (e.g., groundwater-surface water interactions) and new approaches to describe multiscale spatial variability and hydrologic connectivity; (2) accelerating model advances requires comprehensive hydrologic benchmarking in order to systematically evaluate competing alternatives, understand model weaknesses, and prioritize model development needs, and (3) stronger collaboration is needed between the hydrology and ESM modeling communities, both through greater engagement of hydrologists in ESM land model development, and through rigorous evaluation of ESM hydrology performance in research watersheds or Critical Zone Observatories. Such coordinated efforts in advancing hydrology in ESMs have the potential to substantially impact energy, carbon, and nutrient cycle prediction capabilities through the fundamental role hydrologic processes play in regulating these cycles.

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Section: Human Impacts On the Terrestrial Water Cyclementioning

confidence: 99%

Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models

Clark

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Lawrence

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Water Resources Research

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“…90,91 Kates 47 was one of the first to propose a conceptualization of the hydrological cycle in terms of various subsystems through which the water 'physically' flows. This perspective further appeared with subsystems described in greater detail in Falkenmark, 92 who proposed a framework in the context of sustainable water use 95 modeling framework that models the dynamics of supply and demand of various economic goods in various regions of the world. It explicitly identifies and models the feedbacks between water, land, climate, energy and economy, and integrates variables such as streamflow at daily and basin scale, and economic variables at annual scale to climate change effects at decadal scales.…”

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Progress in socio‐hydrology: a meta‐analysis of challenges and opportunities

2016

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Socio-hydrology was introduced 4 years ago into the scientific lexicon, and elicited several reactions about the meaning and originality of the concept. However, there has also been much activity triggered by the original paper, including further commentaries that clarified the definitions, and several papers that acted on the definitions, and through these activities further clarified and illustrated the meaning and usefulness of socio-hydrology for understanding coupled human-water systems and to assist with sustainable water management. This paper restates the case for socio-hydrology by articulating the need to consider the two-way feedbacks between human and water systems in order to explain puzzles, paradoxes, and unintended consequences that arise in the context of water management, and to suggest ways to avoid or overcome these challenges. The paper then presents a critical review of past research on socio-hydrology through the prism of historical, comparative, and process socio-hydrology, documenting both the progress made and the challenges faced. Much of the work done so far has involved studies of socio-hydrological systems in spatially isolated domains (e.g., river basins), and phenomena that involve emergent patterns in the time domain. The modeling studies so far have involved testing hypotheses about how these temporal patterns arise. An important feature that distinguishes socio-hydrology from other related fields is the importance of allowing human agency (e.g., socioeconomics, technology, norms, and values) to be endogenous to the systems. This paper articulates the need to extend sociohydrology to explore phenomena in space and in space-time, as the world becomes increasingly globalized and human-water systems become highly interconnected. The endogenization of human agency, in terms of values and norms, technology, economics, and trade must now be extended to space and to spacetime. This is a necessity, and a challenge, for water sustainability, but presents exciting opportunities for further research. © 2016 The Authors. WIREs Water published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. How to cite this article:WIREs Water 2017, 4:e1193. doi: 10.1002/wat2.1193 INTRODUCTIONH umans have been exploiting the Earth's natural resources at an accelerating pace ever since intense economic activity was triggered by the industrial revolution. This exploitation of the Earth's natural resources facilitated, and was in turn facilitated by, technological innovations. These innovations included extraction of iron ore, the steam engine, and faster ships, railroads, and several other means This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.subsequently that connected people worldwide through trade. Concerted ambitions of humans in different parts of the world with their unique niches, now connected through trade, fuelled the...

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“…Owing to the increased mechanisation of agriculture and the development of more diverse energy sources, the interdependencies among the food, water and energy sectors are stronger than ever (Bazilian et al, 2011;Kraucunas et al, 2015;United Nations Water, 2015). Currently 30 % of energy produced is used within the food sector, with fluctuations in energy costs having direct impacts on agriculture and thus water resources (Frieler et al, 2015).…”

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A framework for modelling the complexities of food and water security under globalisation

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Abstract. We present a new framework for modelling the complexities of food and water security under globalisation. The framework sets out a method to capture regional and sectoral interdependencies and cross-scale feedbacks within the global food system that contribute to emergent water use patterns. The framework integrates aspects of existing models and approaches in the fields of hydrology and integrated assessment modelling. The core of the framework is a multi-agent network of city agents connected by infrastructural trade networks. Agents receive socio-economic and environmental constraint information from integrated assessment models and hydrological models respectively and simulate complex, socio-environmental dynamics that operate within those constraints. The emergent changes in food and water resources are aggregated and fed back to the original models with minimal modification of the structure of those models. It is our conviction that the framework presented can form the basis for a new wave of decision tools that capture complex socio-environmental change within our globalised world. In doing so they will contribute to illuminating pathways towards a sustainable future for humans, ecosystems and the water they share.

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Investigating the nexus of climate, energy, water, and land at decision-relevant scales: the Platform for Regional Integrated Modeling and Analysis (PRIMA)

Cited by 133 publications

References 17 publications

Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models

Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models

Progress in socio‐hydrology: a meta‐analysis of challenges and opportunities

A framework for modelling the complexities of food and water security under globalisation

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