Reports on the 4th International Conference of the Hydrology delivers Earth System Science to Society
The fourth international conference of Hydrology delivers Earth System Sciences to Society (HESSS) took place from 16 to 19 May 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. The series of the workshops have provided forums for strengthening synergies between the modeling and monitoring research communities in hydrology and water resources since 2007. The fourth conference was hosted by the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo (IIS) and co-sponsored by IAMAS and the GEWEX Global Land Atmosphere System Study (GLASS) Panel. The workshop focused on “Climate Extremes and Global Energy, Water and Carbon Cycles: Improving and Integrating Knowledge Across Disciplines” and discussed on-going model intercomparison projects (MIPs) including both natural and anthropogenic hydrological cycles: the Global Soil Wetness Project Phase 3 (GSWP3), the Inter-Sectoral Impact MIP (ISIMIP), Earth System Model-Snow MIP (ESM-SnowMIP), Land Surface, Snow, Soil-moisture MIP (LS3MIP) and Land Use MIP (LUMIP).
The workshop provides five symposium sessions in the program on the following topics: (1) Changes of Climate Forcing and Terrestrial Feedback, (2) Changing Climate and the Natural-Human System, (3) Satellite Remote Sensing and Model Integration, (4) Uncertainties in Model Simulations and (5) Delivering Science to Society. In addition, two tutorial sessions were provided by the International Land Model Benchmarking (ILAMB) project. More than 100 participants from 16 countries attended the conference, and there were 15 keynote presentations, 47 oral presentations and 34 poster presentations. The workshop was facilitated by the local organizing committee lead by Hyungjun Kim and Taikan Oki, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Participants agreed on the point that HESSS4 provided opportunity in sharing knowledge and datasets across the initiatives and built capacity among communities. Involving social scientists could make HESSS strengthen the delivering science to society, enhancing knowledge and information symmetry between science and society.
Participants at the 4th International Conference of the Hydrology delivers Earth System Science to Society
From left: Aaron Boone, Hyungjun Kim, Gerhard Krinner, and Dave Lawrence