13 May 2007

The commentary of Bronstert (2004) cannot be labeled with NASA's LUCC scientific questions. The paper itself provides the research questions in the hydrological modeling domain with an emphasis on rainfall-runoff modeling. Several key factors that require special attention, as pointed out by the author, include (1) drivers, (2) appropriate spatiotemporal scales of observation1, (3) incorporation of feedback, if necessary, (4) modeling aims (normal or extreme events), and (5) scenario-driving modeling.

The commentary provides a nice summary into six points. If interested, they can be found in the last page of the commentary.

Footnote
1Aylward (2005) points out a related issue for appropriate spatiotemporal scales: most "existing studies have been undertaken at small scales (less than 10 km2) in headwater basins and over relatively short durations, making accurate extrapolation and 'upscaling' difficult.".

References
Aylward, B., 2005, Towards watershed science that matters, Hydrologic Processes, 19, 2643-2647
Bronstert, A, 2004, Rainfall-runoff modelling for assessing impacts of climate and land-use change, Hydrological Processes, 18, 567-570 [doi]

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