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- Title
A recipe for why and how to set up and sustain an experimental catchment.
- Authors
Penna, Daniele
- Abstract
Experimental catchments are fundamental elements in hydrological sciences as they provide key data for putting forward and testing hypotheses, developing theories, constraining models, and making predictions. Significant progress in catchment hydrology stemmed from field measurements but increasing costs and risks associated with field work and the availability of big data based on remote sensing, machine learning, and a plethora of models, as well as observations deriving from previous and current sites, raises questions on whether running an experimental catchment still provides individual and community benefits as in the past. In this commentary, I highlight the advantages of keeping experimental catchments alive and propose a personal 10‐step "recipe" to set up a new experimental catchment and manage and sustain it in the long term. These suggestions can be useful both to young and less young researchers who are open to facing the challenge of measuring processes in the field and are willing to offer the scientific community new experimental evidence for advancing our current knowledge in catchment hydrology.
- Subjects
SCIENTIFIC community; REMOTE sensing; MACHINE learning; BIG data; RESEARCH personnel; WATERSHEDS
- Publication
Hydrological Processes, 2024, Vol 38, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
0885-6087
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hyp.15163