Imperial College London
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Emeritus Professor Howard Wheater

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Emeritus Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 6066h.wheater CV

 
 
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Assistant

 

Miss Judith Barritt +44 (0)20 7594 5967

 
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Location

 

229Skempton BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Wada:2017:10.5194/hess-21-4169-2017,
author = {Wada, Y and Bierkens, MFP and De, Roo A and Dirmeyer, PA and Famiglietti, JS and Hanasaki, N and Konar, M and Liu, J and Schmied, HM and Oki, T and Pokhrel, Y and Sivapalan, M and Troy, TJ and Van, Dijk AIJM and Van, Emmerik T and Van, Huijgevoort MHJ and Van, Lanen HAJ and Vörösmarty, CJ and Wanders, N and Wheater, H},
doi = {10.5194/hess-21-4169-2017},
journal = {Hydrology and Earth System Sciences},
pages = {4169--4193},
title = {Human-water interface in hydrological modelling: Current status and future directions},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-4169-2017},
volume = {21},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - © Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under. Over recent decades, the global population has been rapidly increasing and human activities have altered terrestrial water fluxes to an unprecedented extent. The phenomenal growth of the human footprint has significantly modified hydrological processes in various ways (e.g. irrigation, artificial dams, and water diversion) and at various scales (from a watershed to the globe). During the early 1990s, awareness of the potential for increased water scarcity led to the first detailed global water resource assessments. Shortly thereafter, in order to analyse the human perturbation on terrestrial water resources, the first generation of largescale hydrological models (LHMs) was produced. However, at this early stage few models considered the interaction between terrestrial water fluxes and human activities, including water use and reservoir regulation, and even fewer models distinguished water use from surface water and groundwater resources. Since the early 2000s, a growing number of LHMs have incorporated human impacts on the hydrological cycle, yet the representation of human activities in hydrological models remains challenging. In this paper we provide a synthesis of progress in the development and application of human impact modelling in LHMs. We highlight a number of key challenges and discuss possible improvements in order to better represent the human-water interface in hydrological models.
AU  - Wada,Y
AU  - Bierkens,MFP
AU  - De,Roo A
AU  - Dirmeyer,PA
AU  - Famiglietti,JS
AU  - Hanasaki,N
AU  - Konar,M
AU  - Liu,J
AU  - Schmied,HM
AU  - Oki,T
AU  - Pokhrel,Y
AU  - Sivapalan,M
AU  - Troy,TJ
AU  - Van,Dijk AIJM
AU  - Van,Emmerik T
AU  - Van,Huijgevoort MHJ
AU  - Van,Lanen HAJ
AU  - Vörösmarty,CJ
AU  - Wanders,N
AU  - Wheater,H
DO  - 10.5194/hess-21-4169-2017
EP  - 4193
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 1027-5606
SP  - 4169
TI  - Human-water interface in hydrological modelling: Current status and future directions
T2  - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-4169-2017
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/69808
VL  - 21
ER  -
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