Human Interference Quantification and Representation in Hydrological Models—Introduction to the Special Collection on Quantifying Human Interferences in Hydrology

Abstract This article introduces papers published in the special collection of Water Resources Research on quantifying human interferences (or interventions in general) in hydrology and embedding them within large‐scale hydrological models. Starting with a list of instances of human interferences in various hydrologic processes, this article discusses the diverse perspectives of those papers, places the contributions in the context of related work, and distills insights and research perspectives. Eventually, this article goes beyond a typical special collection introduction and offers the author's perspective on human interferences in hydrologic processes.