From 2001-10-08 to 2001-10-12

Venue: Sunriver Resort, Oregon, USA

Summary:
The conference will focus on the review and assessment of the current knowledge in hillslope hydrology with an emphasis on the processes by which water enters and moves through hillslope systems and into a receiving stream.

Plenary presentations will follow a course through the week addressing the hillslope/catchment as systems with inputs, internal processing and transformations, and outputs of water constituents.

TOPICS:
- Controls on Water Flux Into and Within the Soil : A review of what is known about the mechanisms and spatial variability of inputs of water into and through the soil.
- The Patterns and Physics of Water Movement at the Hillslope Scale: What are the mechanisms and patterns by which water is stored, mobilized and routed through and over the soil and bedrock?
- Catchment-scale Processes and Links to Stream Chemistry: This topic will address water and chemistry export from hillslope to channel and within channel processes.
- Representation and Parameterization of Catchments Models: How can complex physical phenomena be simplified into a form appropriate for distributed catchment models? What level of complexity in the physical system description is justified in terms of what is sufficiently understood? How do models at each of these scales link to models at other scales?.

Organizers: University of North Carolina
Oregon State University
Contact Name: Ellyn Terry
E-mail: eterry@agu.org
URL: http://www.agu.org/meetings/cc01ecall.html