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Hydrological Sciences

Keith Beven

Keith Beven is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Hydrology at the University of Lancaster, known for his work on rainfall-runoff modelling and the GLUE uncertainty estimation methodology. He has long been interested in the History of Hydrology and is Chair of the IAHS Working Group on the History of Hydrology. He has also written many articles on landscape photography for the online magazine On Landscape and produced a number of books on images of water (see www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk).

History of Hydrology@EGU2025 and beyond

and December 20, 2024
History of Hydrology@EGU2025 and beyond
History of Hydrology: Robert Horton’s perceptions of preferential infiltration and air escape. From his unpublished monograph on Infiltration of Rainfall.

You are certainly aware of the continued efforts of a group of hydrologists, with the lead of Keith Beven, to shed light on the history of hydrology, including the History of Hydrology Wiki . Looking back to those who shaped our science, the questions they addressed and those that remain open is essential to understand the role of hydrology in earth system sciences, in the development of field res ...[Read More]

Exploring the History of Hydrology – Join the Effort to Map Our Discipline Across the Centuries

August 2, 2023
Exploring the History of Hydrology – Join the Effort to Map Our Discipline Across the Centuries

The history of hydrology stretches back millennia: from the engineers of ancient high cultures over scientific pioneers like Da Vinci and Pallisy to modern groundbreaking modellers.  However, so far, few hydrologists have worked to systematically record the history of their discipline – especially in its more recent decades. That is a gap that the History of Hydrology working group of the In ...[Read More]