Hydrologic research on instrumented watersheds
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Abstract
The successful research man is the one who asks himself the right question.
Research must go on primarily in the mind and only secondarily in the physical and biological world. It is only too easy to confuse the choice of a proper tool and the choice of a proper question. Some tools are quite unsuited to certain questions and some questions cannot be answered without the appropriate tool.
There has been in recent years a large amount of discussion about whether the high costs and the extensive time period required for experimental watershed* research is really worth the investment. Recent discussions of this matter have cited as major criticisms of the instrumented basin that they are expensive, they leak water, they are unrepresentative, they produce changes too small for detection, and it is difficult to transfer the results. (See Hewlett, Lull, and Reinhart, 1969.) These are all questions worth talking about, but in one sense they tend to obscure the main issue. The main issue is what do we want to learn? If we can decide what it is we want to know, then we can logically ask ourselves what is the best way of going about obtaining that knowledge. It is in this context that we are most likely to place the experimental watershed in a useful and logical position in a classification of research methods.
| Publication type | Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Conference Paper |
| Title | Hydrologic research on instrumented watersheds |
| Year Published | 1970 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | International Association of Scientific Hydrology |
| Description | 16 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Conference publication |
| Larger Work Title | Colloque de Wellington Symposium, 1970, Results of Research on Representative and Experimental Basins (IASH Publication 97) |
| First page | 135 |
| Last page | 150 |
| Conference Title | International Symposium on the Results of Research on Representative and Experimental Basins |
| Conference Location | Wellington, New Zealand |
| Conference Date | December 1-8, 1970 |
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