Murugesu Sivapalan

TL;DR: A framework is provided for scaling and scale issues in hydrology and a more holistic perspective dealing with dimensional analysis and similarity concepts is addressed, which deals with complex processes in a much simpler fashion.

TL;DR: The IAHS Decade on Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB) as discussed by the authors is a new initiative launched by the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) aimed at formulating and implementing appropriate science programmes to engage and energize the scientific community, in a coordinated manner, towards achieving major advances in the capacity to make predictions in ungauged basins.

TL;DR: The Prediction in Ungauged Basins (PUB) initiative of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) launched in 2003 and concluded by the PUB Symposium 2012 held in Delft (23-25 October 2012), set out to shift the scientific culture of hydrology towards improved scientific understanding of hydrological processes, as well as associated uncertainties and the development of models with increasing realism and predictive power as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Murugesu Sivapalan,* Hubert H. G. Savenije and Gunter Bloschl 1 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, UrbANA, IL 61801, USA as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This commentary addresses a number of related new avenues for research in watershed science, including the use of comparative analysis, classification, optimality principles, and network theory, all with the intent of defining, understanding, and predicting watershed function and enunciating important watershed functional traits.