17 Northeast Water Cycle Research: Collaborative Studies of Watershed Processes to Address Water Resource Challenges in a Changing Climate

Friday, 28 March 2025
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
130AB

INTEGRATED HYDRO-TERRESTRIAL MODELING 2.0: ADVANCING COMMUNITY CAPABILITIES IN INTEGRATED WATER CYCLE MODELING, RESEARCH, AND OPERATIONS UNDER GLOBAL CHANGE

Paper number: 17-1
Program: Theme Sessions
Time: 1:30 PM – 1:50 PM

Authors

Abstract

Growing societal pressures on U.S. water resources and the challenges inherent in understanding how future water risks may evolve are driving major investments to improve our understanding of the integrated water cycle. This improved understanding as captured in innovations in our data, knowledge, and modeling capabilities, needs to be accelerated through better integration and coordination across scientific disciplines, programs, and U.S. agencies. The Integrated Hydro-Terrestrial Modeling (IHTM) community offers a promising avenue to accelerate the progress required to manage the U.S. water resources sustainably, equitably, and effectively. The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) coordinates research on the impacts of global change on the water cycle through interagency collaboration. USGCRP agencies and their partners jointly held the IHTM 2.0 workshop for U.S. federal and non-federal scientists and managers in fall 2023, aiming to advance community modeling and integrated water resources management capabilities following open science principles. This workshop focused on developing both national and regional testbeds that employ state-of-the-art modeling approaches to explore gaps and opportunities for improving the representation and extensibility of hydrologic processes and modeling. Integrated regional testbeds in Mid-Atlantic, Great Lakes, Colorado River Basin, and Gulf Coast/Mississippi regions were proposed to leverage existing investments and seek actionable collaboration on issues such as water extremes, water quality, water use, and urbanization. Collaborations focused on advancing iterative cycles of model development and testing offer a means for regional scale studies to inform national scale modeling applications and yield nationally consistent modeling frameworks that are also locally relevant. This presentation will highlight key takeaways and findings from the IHTM 2.0 workshop, as well as outline the future directions for the IHTM community as documented in workshop report.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 57, No. 3

doi: 10.1130/abs/2025NE-408948

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