4 Institute for Energy, Environment and
Sustainable Communities, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan S4S
7H9, Canada
Abstract
Water
resources management is a challenging task caused by huge uncertainties
and complexities in hydrological processes and human activities.
Over
the last three decades, various scholars have carried out the study on
hydrological simulation under complex conditions, and quantitatively
characterize the associated uncertainties for water resources systems.
To keep abreast of the development of collective knowledge in this
field, a scientometric review and metasynthesis of the existing
uncertainty analysis research for supporting hydrological modeling and
water resources management is conducted. A total of 2,020 publications
from 1991 to 2018 were acquired from Web of Science. The scientific
structure, cooperation, and frontiers of the related domain were
explored by the science mapping software of CiteSpace. Through
co-citation, collaboration, and co-occurrence network study, the results
present the leading contributors among all countries and hotspots in the
research domain. Besides,
synthetical uncertainty management
for hydrological models and water resource systems under climatic and
land use change will continue to be focused on.
Keywords:uncertainty;
hydrologic modeling; water resources management; emerging trends;
visualization analysis