Theory 93/New facility/Catchment hydrology
Whole Catchments Needed
The claim
Catchment storage responses cannot be inferred from plot experiments, because connectivity and groundwater lag only appear at catchment scale.
01Mechanism
Storage and routing emerge from connectivity that plots do not contain.
02Prediction
Plot and catchment responses should diverge systematically.
03Refutation
Agreement across scales would remove the scale dependence.