Impacts of Climate Change and Land Use/Cover Change on Regional Hydrological Processes

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change (especially changes in precipitation and temperature) and land use/cover change (LUCC, such as reservoir construction, irrigation abstraction, and water conservation projects) have been widely recognized as the main driving forces that can affect regional hydrological processes. Therefore, quantitative assessment of their individual and combined impacts is of great importance for the sustainable development of regional ecosystems, land use planning and water resources management. For instance, such assessment can be conducted at different spatial-temporal scales by utilizing multi-source data (e.g., ground data and remote sensing data). Recent advances in these areas have provided a number of new avenues for better understanding and coping with this issue.

This Special Issue aims to collect the latest methodological developments and applications in studying the impacts of climate change and LUCC on regional hydrological processes. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Dynamics and mechanisms of climate change;
• Evolutions of land use/cover change;
• Long-term changes in regional hydrological processes;
• Roles of human activities in affecting regional hydrological processes;
• Development of innovative methods for attribution analysis;
• Evaluation of the individual and combined impacts of climate change and LUCC;
• Quantitative assessment at different spatial-temporal scales;
• Improvements to information integration using multi-source data;
• Mitigation practices for real-world cases.

Dr. Haiyun Shi
Prof. Dr. Venkat Lakshmi
Dr. Suning Liu
Guest Editors

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• climate change
• land use/cover change
• regional hydrological processes
• hydrological model
• machine learning
• time series analysis
• remote sensing