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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3777-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3777-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Review article
| 
25 Jul 2017
Review article |
| 25 Jul 2017
Hydroclimatic variability and predictability: a survey of recent research
Randal D. Koster
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Alan K. Betts
Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT, USA
Paul A. Dirmeyer
Center for Ocean–Land–Atmosphere Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Marc Bierkens
Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Katrina E. Bennett
Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, USA
Stephen J. Déry
Environmental Science and Engineering Program, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
Jason P. Evans
Climate Change Research Centre and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, UNSW, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Rong Fu
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Felipe Hernandez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
L. Ruby Leung
Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA, USA
Xu Liang
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Muhammad Masood
Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB), Design Circle – 1, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Hubert Savenije
Water Resources Section, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, the Netherlands
Guiling Wang
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Center for Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Xing Yuan
CAS Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia (RCE-TEA), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 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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How to cite. Koster, R. D., Betts, A. K., Dirmeyer, P. A., Bierkens, M., Bennett, K. E., Déry, S. J., Evans, J. P., Fu, R., Hernandez, F., Leung, L. R., Liang, X., Masood, M., Savenije, H., Wang, G., and Yuan, X.: Hydroclimatic variability and predictability: a survey of recent research, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 3777–3798, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3777-2017, 2017.
Short summary
Large-scale hydrological variability can affect society in profound ways; floods and droughts, for example, often cause major damage and hardship. A recent gathering of hydrologists at a symposium to honor the career of Professor Eric Wood motivates the present survey of recent research on this variability. The surveyed literature and the illustrative examples provided in the paper show that research into hydrological variability continues to be strong, vibrant, and multifaceted.
Large-scale hydrological variability can affect society in profound ways; floods and droughts,...