What do models tell us about water and sediment connectivity ?

Recently, connectivity has emerged as a promising concept to understand the transfer of water and sediment in a catchment. Both structural connectivity – i.e. representing the connectivity of system properties such as the (micro)topography, and functional connectivity – i.e. representing connections that may change and evolve over time such as soil moisture, are important to consider.[br/] As discussed by Nunes et al. (in press), good models should be effectively connected models, i.e. represent properly the fluxes of water and sediment both within and between its fundamental spatial units. Ho... Mehr ...