An observation by Robert Horton more than 90-years ago gave birth to a discipline that is providing some meaningful insights today about our place on this watery planet
Fantastic read! It brings to mind a recent opinion paper in HESS by Gao et al (https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2607-2023) that questions our reliance on soils in our hydrologic models. It suggests we instead start with the terrestrial ecosystem because it manipulates the soil, rather than the reverse. Thanks again, loving your posts!
Fantastic read! It brings to mind a recent opinion paper in HESS by Gao et al (https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2607-2023) that questions our reliance on soils in our hydrologic models. It suggests we instead start with the terrestrial ecosystem because it manipulates the soil, rather than the reverse. Thanks again, loving your posts!
There attempts to model rain-runoff with nonlinear dynamics models. There's some evidence that it behaves with chaotic strange attractors. See my essay https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/how-does-rain-turn-into-floods-a