HOBE: A Hydrological Observatory

In this paper a short introduction is given to the Danish hydrological observatory—HOBE. We describe characteristics of the catchment, which is subject to experimental and modeling investigations. An overview is given of the research reported in this special section of the journal, which includes 11 papers of original research covering precipitation, evapotranspiration, emission of greenhouse gasses, unsaturated flow, groundwater–surface water interaction, and climate change impacts on hydrology.

[1]  Torben O. Sonnenborg,et al.  Impact of Precipitation Spatial Resolution on the Hydrological Response of an Integrated Distributed Water Resources Model , 2011 .

[2]  H. Soegaard,et al.  Energy Fluxes above Three Disparate Surfaces in a Temperate Mesoscale Coastal Catchment , 2011 .

[3]  P. Engesgaard,et al.  Nonuniform Groundwater Discharge across a Streambed: Heat as a Tracer , 2011 .

[4]  Bernd Klauer,et al.  Harmonised techniques and representative river basin data for assessment and use of uncertainty information in integrated water management (HarmoniRiB) , 2005 .

[5]  H. Soegaard,et al.  Catchment‐Wide Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Exchange as Influenced by Land Use Diversity , 2011 .

[6]  Jens Christian Refsgaard,et al.  Methodology for construction, calibration and validation of a national hydrological model for Denmark , 2003 .

[7]  Esben Auken,et al.  Salinity Distribution in Heterogeneous Coastal Aquifers Mapped by Airborne Electromagnetics , 2011 .

[8]  Simon Stisen,et al.  Evaluation of Climate Input Biases and Water Balance Issues Using a Coupled Surface–Subsurface Model , 2011 .

[9]  K. Jensen,et al.  Comparison of Hydrological Simulations of Climate Change Using Perturbation of Observations and Distribution‐Based Scaling , 2011 .

[10]  K. Jensen,et al.  An Operational Weather Radar–Based Quantitative Precipitation Estimation and its Application in Catchment Water Resources Modeling , 2011 .

[11]  T. Sonnenborg,et al.  Regional Differences in Climate Change Impacts on Groundwater and Stream Discharge in Denmark , 2007 .

[12]  T. Jonch-Clausen,et al.  Firming up the Conceptual Basis of Integrated Water Resources Management , 2001 .

[13]  H. Vereecken,et al.  Towards a network of observatories in terrestrial environmental research , 2006 .

[14]  J. Kidmose,et al.  Spatial Distribution of Seepage at a Flow‐Through Lake: Lake Hampen, Western Denmark , 2011 .

[15]  Mathias Herbst,et al.  Comparing Evapotranspiration Rates Estimated from Atmospheric Flux and TDR Soil Moisture Measurements , 2011 .

[16]  Karsten H. Jensen,et al.  Visualizing Unsaturated Flow Phenomena Using High‐Resolution Reflection Ground Penetrating Radar , 2011 .