An overview of complex behaviour in the groundwater compartment of catchment systems and some implications for modelling and monitoring
Bloomfield, John P. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5730-1723; McKenzie, Andrew A.; Williams, Ann T..
2008
An overview of complex behaviour in the groundwater compartment of catchment systems and some implications for modelling and monitoring.
In: Sustainable Hydrology for the 21st Century. 10th BHS National Hydrology Symposium, Exeter, UK, 15-17 Sept 2008.
Exeter, UK, 208-214.
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Abstract/Summary
An understanding of non-causal relationships between processes in the air, soil and water compartments of the environment is fundamental to sustainable integrated management. This paper provides an overview of the groundwater sub-compartment and asserts that it exhibits many characteristics of a complex system, especially in relation to a wide range of non-linearities, although not all groundwater phenomena should be regarded as reflecting system complexity. Analysis of the groundwater compartment based on concepts such as emergence has been hindered by a long history of deterministic conceptualisation, while other aspects of complex systems such as self-organised criticality are difficult to investigate in the groundwater context due to problems of obtaining appropriate data. Despite this, conceptualising the groundwater compartment as a complex system would enable groundwater processes to be more fully integrated in a systems understanding of the environment. Some of the implications of complex behaviour for groundwater resource modelling and monitoring are briefly noted.
| Item Type: | Publication - Conference Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Programmes: | BGS Programmes 2009 > Groundwater science |
| Additional Keywords: | GroundwaterBGS, Groundwater, Groundwater modelling, Groundwater monitoring, Surface water interaction |
| NORA Subject Terms: | Hydrology |
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| Date made live: | 22 Jul 2009 13:31 +0 (UTC) |
| URI: | https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/7759 |
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