edu.ucar.opensky::articles:17915 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-26T02:59:01.012536 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d75d8tb8 https://doi.org/10.5066/F7WM1BF7 https Related Dataset #1 Preliminary spatial parameters for PRMS based on the Geospatial Fabric, NLCD2001, and SSURGO https://doi.org/10.5066/F7542KMD https Related Dataset #2 GIS Features of the Geospatial Fabric for National Hydrologic Modeling Accelerating advances in continental domain hydrologic modeling 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d75d8tb8 https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR017498 Archfield, S. author Clark, Martyn P. author Arheimer, B. author Hay, L. author McMillan, H. author Kiang, J. author Seibert, J. author Hakala, K. author Bock, A. author Wagener, T. author Farmer, W. author Andréassian, V. author Attinger, S. author Viglione, A. author Knight, R. author Markstrom, S. author Over, T. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher In the past, hydrologic modeling of surface water resources has mainly focused on simulating the hydrologic cycle at local to regional catchment modeling domains. There now exists a level of maturity among the catchment, global water security, and land surface modeling communities such that these communities are converging toward continental domain hydrologic models. This commentary, written from a catchment hydrology community perspective, provides a review of progress in each community toward this achievement, identifies common challenges the communities face, and details immediate and specific areas in which these communities can mutually benefit one another from the convergence of their research perspectives. Those include: (1) creating new incentives and infrastructure to report and share model inputs, outputs, and parameters in data services and open access, machine-independent formats for model replication or reanalysis; (2) ensuring that hydrologic models have: sufficient complexity to represent the dominant physical processes and adequate representation of anthropogenic impacts on the terrestrial water cycle, a process-based approach to model parameter estimation, and appropriate parameterizations to represent large-scale fluxes and scaling behavior; (3) maintaining a balance between model complexity and data availability as well as uncertainties; and (4) quantifying and communicating significant advancements toward these modeling goals. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright 2015 American Geophysical Union. None eng geoscientificInformation