HESS opinions: ""Climate, hydrology, energy, water: Recognizing uncertainty and seeking sustainability""

Koutsoyiannis, D; Makropoulos, C; Langousis, A; Baki, S; Efstratiadis, A; Christofides, A; Karavokiros, G; Mamassis, N

dc.contributor.author	Koutsoyiannis, D	en
dc.contributor.author	Makropoulos, C	en
dc.contributor.author	Langousis, A	en
dc.contributor.author	Baki, S	en
dc.contributor.author	Efstratiadis, A	en
dc.contributor.author	Christofides, A	en
dc.contributor.author	Karavokiros, G	en
dc.contributor.author	Mamassis, N	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T11:44:51Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T11:44:51Z
dc.date.issued	2009	en
dc.identifier.issn	1027-5606	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/37205
dc.subject	Climate Change	en
dc.subject	Energy Saving	en
dc.subject	Fossil Fuels	en
dc.subject	Greenhouse Gases	en
dc.subject	Quantum Physics	en
dc.subject	Renewable Energy	en
dc.subject	Renewable Resources	en
dc.subject	Water Resource	en
dc.subject	Time Varying	en
dc.subject.classification	Geosciences, Multidisciplinary	en
dc.subject.classification	Water Resources	en
dc.subject.other	climate change	en
dc.subject.other	climatology	en
dc.subject.other	Earth science	en
dc.subject.other	fossil fuel	en
dc.subject.other	greenhouse gas	en
dc.subject.other	hydrology	en
dc.subject.other	nineteenth century	en
dc.subject.other	power generation	en
dc.subject.other	renewable resource	en
dc.subject.other	spatiotemporal analysis	en
dc.subject.other	sustainability	en
dc.subject.other	water resource	en
dc.title	HESS opinions: ""Climate, hydrology, energy, water: Recognizing uncertainty and seeking sustainability""	en
heal.type	other	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.5194/hess-13-247-2009	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-13-247-2009	en
heal.language	English	en
heal.publicationDate	2009	en
heal.abstract	Since 1990 extensive funds have been spent on research in climate change. Although Earth Sciences, including climatology and hydrology, have benefited significantly, progress has proved incommensurate with the effort and funds, perhaps because these disciplines were perceived as ""tools"" subservient to the needs of the climate change enterprise rather than autonomous sciences. At the same time, research was misleadingly focused more on the ""symptom"", i.e. the emission of greenhouse gases, than on the ""illness"", i.e. the unsustain ability of fossil fuel-based energy production. Unless energy saving and use of renewable resources become the norm, there is a real risk of severe socioeconomic crisis in the not-too-distant future. A framework for drastic paradigm change is needed, in which water plays a central role, due to its unique link to all forms of renewable energy, from production (hydro and wave power) to storage (for time-varying wind and solar sources), to bio fuel production (irrigation). The extended role of water should be considered in parallel to its other uses, domestic, agricultural and industrial. Hydrology, the science of water on Earth, must move towards this new paradigm by radically rethinking its fundamentals, which are unjustifiably trapped in the 19th- century myths of deterministic theories and the zeal to eliminate uncertainty. Guidance is offered by modern statistical and quantum physics, which reveal the intrinsic character of uncertainty/entropy in nature, thus advancing towards a new understanding and modelling of physical processes, which is central to the effective use of renewable energy and water resources. © Author(s) 2009.	en
heal.publisher	COPERNICUS PUBLICATIONS	en
heal.journalName	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.5194/hess-13-247-2009	en
dc.identifier.isi	ISI:000263838900014	en
dc.identifier.volume	13	en
dc.identifier.issue	2	en
dc.identifier.spage	247	en
dc.identifier.epage	257	en