The Hydrologic Cycle in a Changing Climate (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 770
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Physics, Mathematics and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Eiveniu Str. 4, LT-44307 Kaunas, Lithuania
Interests: climate change; extreme hydrological phenomena; low flow indices; hydromorphology; droughts; spring floods
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Interests: climatology; climate change; teleconnection patterns; hydrometeorological phenomena; catchment hydrology; hydrological modelling; spring floods
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This is a follow-up to the first edition of the Special Issue entitled “The Hydrologic Cycle in a Changing Climate” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/special_issues/9J0FU34GKW), published in Atmosphere in 2024.
The hydrological cycle describes the continuous movement of water in the Earth's hydrosphere, a continuous process comprising atmospheric, surface, and groundwater movement. The changing climate directly affects the drivers and components of the hydrological cycle (evapotranspiration, water vapor concentrations, clouds, air temperature, precipitation patterns, surface runoff, stream flow patterns, etc.).
The climate crisis has led to an increase in average global temperatures and an increase in high-temperature-related extreme events such as heat waves. Higher temperatures are also predicted to change the geographic distribution of climate zones, leading to an acceleration in evaporation, which increases the risk of severe drought in one region and causes unexpected flooding in another due to transported moisture. Amidst climate change, droughts are already becoming more frequent and longer lasting in many regions of the world. Drought is an unusual and temporary lack of water resulting from insufficient rainfall and increased evaporation (due to high temperatures). Conversely, over the last century, an increase in evaporation and precipitation has been intensifying the hydrological cycle. This is an undesirable consequence of global warming, as higher temperatures encourage evaporation; i.e., the evaporation from the land surface and sea is transporting the moisture as rain and snow to inland areas. Additionally, warmer air can hold more water vapor, leading to heavy rainfall, extreme flooding, and other risks. Another example of changes in the hydrological cycle is the retreat of glaciers when the water supplied via solid precipitation is not sufficient to replenish the ice lost through melting and sublimation.
In this Special Issue, we invite you to submit contributions on new insights into any types of hydrologic cycle processes, their response to climate change, interactions between their components, and many more factors. Research related to any aspect of hydrological cycle observations and modelling is welcome, including new or interdisciplinary approaches, feedback processes, various hydro-meteorological phenomena, the human role in the hydrologic cycle, and other topics that improve our understanding about changes in the hydrologic cycle. Review papers will also be considered.
Dr. Diana Meilutytė-Lukauskienė
Dr. Vytautas Akstinas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- hydrologic cycle
- droughts
- flooding
- water resource management
- river runoff
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