Catchment co-evolution: space–time patterns and functional controls
Catchment co-evolution: space–time patterns and functional controls
Editor(s): H. Li, D. Wang, and M. Sivapalan
The objective of this special issue, in the spirit of Mikhail Budyko's classic work, is to bring together a broad range of papers that address the following, but not by any means limited to, research questions:

1. water balance patterns: new approaches to overcome the steady-state assumption of the Budyko hypothesis, process-based understanding of the conditions forming up those catchments under steady states and the conditions of a catchment migrating from one steady state to another;
2. self-organized patterns of water balance variability at other timescales, such as seasonal water balance, flow duration curves, streamflow recession curves and flood frequency curves;
3. exploring and identifying new patterns of catchment co-evolution across space scales and timescales such as, but not limited to, vegetation organization, soil erosion and drainage density, and biogeochemical cycles;
4. process-based understanding of the role of climate, soil, vegetation, topography in shaping recognized self-organization patterns;
5. applications of self-organization patterns for model development and parameterization and water resources management.

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04 Jul 2016
Dominant climatic factors driving annual runoff changes at the catchment scale across China
Zhongwei Huang, Hanbo Yang, and Dawen Yang
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 2573–2587, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-2573-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-2573-2016, 2016
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01 Jul 2016
Three-parameter-based streamflow elasticity model: application to MOPEX basins in the USA at annual and seasonal scales
Goutam Konapala and Ashok K. Mishra
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 2545–2556, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-2545-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-2545-2016, 2016
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16 Mar 2016
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Coevolution of volcanic catchments in Japan
Takeo Yoshida and Peter A. Troch
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 1133–1150, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-1133-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-1133-2016, 2016
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03 Feb 2016
A scaling approach to Budyko's framework and the complementary relationship of evapotranspiration in humid environments: case study of the Amazon River basin
A. M. Carmona, G. Poveda, M. Sivapalan, S. M. Vallejo-Bernal, and E. Bustamante
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 589–603, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-589-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-589-2016, 2016
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28 Jan 2016
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Does the Budyko curve reflect a maximum-power state of hydrological systems? A backward analysis
M. Westhoff, E. Zehe, P. Archambeau, and B. Dewals
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 479–486, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-479-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-479-2016, 2016
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21 Jan 2016
New interpretation of the role of water balance in an extended Budyko hypothesis in arid regions
C. Du, F. Sun, J. Yu, X. Liu, and Y. Chen
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 393–409, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-393-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-393-2016, 2016
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27 Aug 2015
Socio-hydrological water balance for water allocation between human and environmental purposes in catchments
S. Zhou, Y. Huang, Y. Wei, and G. Wang
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 3715–3726, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-3715-2015,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-3715-2015, 2015
12 May 2015
Evolution of the human–water relationships in the Heihe River basin in the past 2000 years
Z. Lu, Y. Wei, H. Xiao, S. Zou, J. Xie, J. Ren, and A. Western
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 2261–2273, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-2261-2015,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-2261-2015, 2015
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24 Apr 2015
Effects of snow ratio on annual runoff within the Budyko framework
D. Zhang, Z. Cong, G. Ni, D. Yang, and S. Hu
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 1977–1992, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-1977-2015,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-1977-2015, 2015
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