Observatory Design

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1. Intensive Research Sites in Major Ecosystem Types
   • New process knowledge
   • develop a physically based understanding of eco-hydrological processes at the plot-to-hillslope scale
2. Distributed Data Collection
   • Spatial and temporal variability in processes
   • obtain intensive, coordinated observations of these processes in major vegetation, ecosystem, landcover types
3. Nested Catchments
   • Integrated measure of "upstream" processes
   • identify physically-based methods to parameterize these processes at the landscape-to-basin scale
4. Experimental Manipulations
   • Address specific unknowns
5. Fine Resolution Model Development
   • Combining knowledge into predictive model;
   • accurately incorporate the important hydrometeorological, physiographic, and physiological interrelationships in a distributed hydrologic watershed model