U.S. Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Research Service, Lincoln, Nebraska
Date of this Version
2001
Citation
Published in Journal of Environmental Quality (2001) 30(3): p. 1100-1100. DOI:10.2134/jeq2001.3031100x
Abstract
Spatial and temporal scales in environmental research cover a wide range. As the research community wants to develop an understanding of the impact of management changes on larger scales, there is often a difficulty because of the lack of tools to effectively transfer data or information among scales. Emphasis on watershed- and regional-scale research requires information being transferred from either observations or models based on smaller scales. How these exchanges of data or model results across both time and space scales can be effectively accomplished is critical to help everyone understand how they can move information across scales. These questions are what the authors have addressed in theory and practice in this book. This book presents the theory that underlays the development of upscaling and downscaling methods and incorporates this theory into a decision support system to aid the user.