The Water Cycle and Climate Change (3rd Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is the third volume in a series of publications dedicated to “The Water Cycle and Climate Change” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/special_issues/Water_Cycle_Climate), and “The Water Cycle and Climate Change (2nd Edition)” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/special_issues/J168Z34NR4)

A warmer climate will intensify the global and regional water cycle, leading to significant changes in precipitation, evapotranspiration, streamflow, and water storage. For example, global warming can cause the redistribution of global and regional water resources on spatial and temporal scales. This redistribution may further increase precipitation variability (precipitation whiplash events), and can thus exacerbate extreme conditions (e.g., more droughts or floods). Assessing water cycle characteristics in the context of climate change has important implications for global and regional water resource management and food security. However, the assessments and mechanisms of climate warming on hydro-climatic extreme events certainly need to be deepened and expanded, especially for compound weather and climate extremes, which represent combinations of multiple drivers and/or hazards, amplifying disproportionate impacts on natural environments and the social economy compared to individual extremes. Therefore, it is important and necessary to quantify the impacts of climate change, as well as other anthropogenic factors, on the water cycle, such as streamflow, evapotranspiration, floods, and droughts.

This Special Issue provides a platform for studying the water cycle and its response to climate change, especially hydrometeorological extremes (e.g., individual, concurrent, and compound hydro-climatic extreme events). We sincerely invite researchers to contribute the latest research on the water cycle and climate change. We encourage the submission of research manuscripts which focus on, but are not limited to, the discussion of the following topics:

(1) Contributions of climate change to the water cycle.
(2) Impacts of climate change on hydroclimatic extremes.
(3) Identification and mechanisms of compound extreme hydroclimatic events.
(4) Model simulations of hydro-climatic extreme events.
(5) Historical assessments and future projections of hydrometeorological extremes.
(6) Socio-economic impacts of extreme hydrometeorological events under water cycle anomalies.

Dr. Yuqing Zhang
Guest Editor

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• climate change
• hydrometeorological extremes
• compound weather and climate extremes
• model simulations
• drought and flood
• spatio-temporal patterns