The Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 35
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrogeology; remote sensing; MODFLOW; GRACE/GRACE-FO data; climate change; SWAT model
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Interests: remote sensing; radar; GRACE/GRACE-FO data; climate change; hydrological modeling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is a follow-up of the first Special Issue, entitled “The Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/special_issues/B0IFOXX4A2) published in Atmosphere.
Recent hydrogeological research confirms that depletion is the most common problem for groundwater in many parts of the world. Indeed, climate change is leading to water scarcity in many regions due to declines in heavy and erratic rainfall, flooding, prolonged droughts, changes in the water cycle, and other mechanisms dependent on it. This situation is exacerbated in the aforementioned regions characterized by scarce and irregular surface runoff. Groundwater is then the main resource in these regions; it is characterized by very low renewal rates and is very sensitive to climate change.
The depletion of water resources has been the subject of several climatological, hydrological, and hydrogeological studies which have shown that the status of the resource depends mainly on the internal architecture of aquifers, precipitation, and exploitation, which are mainly controlled by climate change. Therefore, it seems essential to understand the process and phenomena controlling the response of aquifer systems that are exposed to these global changes.
The new visualization, processing, and modeling technologies, such as process-oriented methods and remote sensing data-driven methods, are now widely applied in hydrogeological studies. Hydrogeological and hydrological modeling is an increasingly used tool as a means to check the consistency of available data, for a better understanding and more reliable analysis of the complex responses of the hydrosystems facing climate change. The remark that emerged from the analysis of these works relates to the difficulties of acquiring reliable data and allows us to better account for the complexity of the systems. The objective of this Special Issue is to contribute to the analysis of the relevance of new technologies of data acquisition (hydrogeological data and remote sensing data), interpretation, and processing to better elucidate the impact of climate change on water resources.
Dr. Mohamed Hamdi
Prof. Dr. Kalifa Goïta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- safe water
- strategic water
- precipitation
- drought
- flood
- meteorological indices
- remote-sensing-based drought indices
- water resources management
- process-oriented method (numerical modeling)
- satellite data-driven method
