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T1 - A geospatial framework to support integrated biogeochemical modelling in the United Kingdom
AU - Greene, Sheila
AU - Johnes, Penny J.
AU - Bloomfield, John P.
AU - Reaney, Sim M.
AU - Lawley, Russell S.
AU - Elkhatib, Yehia
AU - Freer, Jim
AU - Odoni, Nick
AU - Macleod, Christopher J. A.
AU - Percy, Barbara J.
N1 - © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
PY - 2015/6
Y1 - 2015/6
N2 - Anthropogenic impacts on the aquatic environment, especially in the context of nutrients, provide a major challenge for water resource management. The heterogeneous nature of policy relevant management units (e.g. catchments), in terms of environmental controls on nutrient source and transport, leads to the need for holistic management. However, current strategies are limited by current understanding and knowledge that is transferable between spatial scales and landscape typologies. This study presents a spatially-explicit framework to support the modelling of nutrients from land to water, encompassing environmental and spatial complexities. The framework recognises nine homogeneous landscape units, distinct in terms of sensitivity of nutrient losses to waterbodies. The functionality of the framework is demonstrated by supporting an exemplar nutrient model, applied within the Environmental Virtual Observatory pilot (EVOp) cloud cyber-infrastructure. We demonstrate scope for the use of the framework as a management decision support tool and for further development of integrated biogeochemical modelling.
AB - Anthropogenic impacts on the aquatic environment, especially in the context of nutrients, provide a major challenge for water resource management. The heterogeneous nature of policy relevant management units (e.g. catchments), in terms of environmental controls on nutrient source and transport, leads to the need for holistic management. However, current strategies are limited by current understanding and knowledge that is transferable between spatial scales and landscape typologies. This study presents a spatially-explicit framework to support the modelling of nutrients from land to water, encompassing environmental and spatial complexities. The framework recognises nine homogeneous landscape units, distinct in terms of sensitivity of nutrient losses to waterbodies. The functionality of the framework is demonstrated by supporting an exemplar nutrient model, applied within the Environmental Virtual Observatory pilot (EVOp) cloud cyber-infrastructure. We demonstrate scope for the use of the framework as a management decision support tool and for further development of integrated biogeochemical modelling.
KW - Water resource management
KW - spatial targeting
KW - pollution
KW - cloud computing
KW - decision support
U2 - 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.02.012
DO - 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.02.012
M3 - Journal article
VL - 68
SP - 219
EP - 232
JO - Environmental Modelling and Software
JF - Environmental Modelling and Software
SN - 1364-8152
ER -