Special Issue "Extreme Hydro-Climate Events: Past, Present, and Future"

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Haiyun Shi
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School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
Interests: digital watershed and hydroinformatics; extreme hydrological events (floods and droughts) under climate change; sustainable development of water resources
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Prof. Dr. Bellie Sivakumar
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Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400076, India
Interests: rainfall and streamflow modeling; sediment transport; large-scale water projects; ecosystem modeling; human–water interactions; complex systems and networks; chaos theory; scaling and fractals
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Dr. Suning Liu
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School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
Interests: hydrological extremes (floods and droughts); groundwater-surface water interaction; hyporheic zone study; large-scale water resource system optimization; water resource planning and management; water resource economics and policy
Dr. Xuezhi Tan
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School of Civil Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
Interests: atmospheric circulation; atmospheric thermodynamics; land and atmospheric interactions; precipitation extremes; climate detection and attribution
Dr. Nasser Najibi
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Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Interests: hydroclimatology; water systems; extreme events; statistical modeling; atmospheric dynamics; remote sensing; spatial analysis; climate impact assessment

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, extreme hydroclimate events (such as floods and droughts) have occurred more frequently, leading to significant threats to lives and damage of property. It is, therefore, important and necessary to 1) better understand their mechanisms of occurrence and evolution, 2) propose more effective methods for early warning, and 3) develop novel techniques for risk analysis and vulnerability analysis. For instance, it is important to study extreme hydroclimate events at different spatial–temporal scales for a better understanding of their occurrence and propagation; utilize multisource data (e.g., ground data and remote sensing data) for more accurate and reliable prediction; and develop accurate disaster control methods (e.g., soil moisture prediction, rainfall data crowdsourcing, and streamflow forecasting) for better planning and management. Advances in these areas can provide new avenues for coping with extreme hydroclimate events.

This Special Issue aims to collect the latest methodological developments and applications in studying both historic and future extreme hydroclimate events. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Dynamics, mechanisms, and evolutions of extreme hydroclimate events

- Development of methods for identification and early warning of extreme hydroclimate events, especially in ungauged basins

- Improvements to information integration using multisource data

- New techniques for risk analysis and vulnerability analysis of extreme hydroclimate events

- Mitigation practices for real-world extreme hydroclimate events

Dr. Haiyun Shi
Prof. Dr. Bellie Sivakumar
Dr. Suning Liu
Dr. Xuezhi Tan
Dr. Nasser Najibi
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • extreme hydroclimate events
  • floods
  • droughts
  • dynamic evolution
  • prediction
  • early warning
  • risk and vulnerability
  • mitigation practices

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Meteorological Drought Changes and Related Circulation Characteristics in Yulin City of the Northern Shaanxi from 1961 to 2015
Atmosphere 2020, 11(11), 1196; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11111196 - 04 Nov 2020
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This study explored the spatio-temporal patterns of meteorological drought change and the mechanisms of drought occurrence in Yulin City of the northern Shaanxi by using Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis and composite analysis based on the meteorological observation data [...] Read more.
This study explored the spatio-temporal patterns of meteorological drought change and the mechanisms of drought occurrence in Yulin City of the northern Shaanxi by using Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis and composite analysis based on the meteorological observation data and NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data from 1961 to 2015. The main findings of the research are as follows: (1) In the annual and seasonal drought series, there is a non-significant trend toward drought in summer, while there are non-significant trends toward wetness for the other series. Overall, the frequency of drought is low in the southeast and high in the west and the north of the study area. (2) EOF1 is characterized by a uniform pattern in the whole region, i.e., there is a feature of consistent drought or flood in Yulin City. EOF2, EOF3 and EOF4 mainly indicate opposite characteristics of the changes of floods and droughts in the eastern/western parts and the southeast/other parts in the study area. (3) In the summer of the typical drought (flood) years, the study area is controlled by the northwest airflow behind the trough (zonal airflow at the bottom of low-pressure trough), and the meridional circulation (zonal circulation) is distributed in the mid-latitudes, which is conducive to the intrusion of cold air into the south (north) of China. The cold and warm air intersection area is to the south (to the north). The water vapor flux is weak (strong) and the water vapor divergence (convergence) prohibits (enhances) the precipitation process in the study area. Full article
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