Hydrology Agriculture and Land Observation 2.16

Resilience in water and food supplies represent two major elements of the Kingdom's efforts towards a secure and sustainable future. Given the inextricable links between water and food and the critical importance of these locally and globally, the HALO Group seeks to address key components of this challenge.

Overriding research goals include: 1) to bet­ter under­stand the processes and mech­a­nisms that link and mod­u­late the move­ment of water within the Earth system; 2) to understand how water and energy are dis­trib­uted within the Earth sys­tem in both space and time; and 3) to diag­nose, model and predict hydro­log­i­cal cycle vari­abil­ity and change: par­tic­u­larly as relates to improv­ing water resource man­age­ment and water security