Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources

Dear Colleagues,

Transient and future climate change is affecting the water cycle worldwide, enhancing precipitation variability, changing evapotranspiration and soil moisture patterns, thus affecting water resources, and increasing both floods and droughts extent. The water cycle in mountain is affected by earlier snowmelt, and magnified glaciers’ down-wasting. In arid and semi-arid areas, present and future modified precipitation patterns may further reduce water availability. Agricultural water demands may increase under climate change, in the face of reduced hydrological water supply.

The modified water cycle under climate change will, therefore, have an effect upon water and food security, energy production, and ecosystem services.

The Special Issue will welcome contributions broadly tackling the theme of water resource availability, and seasonality under climate change, in as wide as possible an array of climatic and hydrological conditions, including, but not limited to:

1)      Hydrological modeling under changing climate;
2)      Hydrological projections, sensitivity analysis, and adaptation measures;
3)      Impact of climate change on mountain hydrology;
4)      Effect of a changed and changing cryosphere (i.e.: snow, glacier ice and permafrost) on mountain water availability;
5)      Water resources in arid environment;
6)      Enhanced flood magnitude under climate change
7)      Enhanced drought magnitude under climate change
8)      Modified agricultural water use and availability under climate change
9)      Effects of changing water cycle upon riverine environment
10)  Climate change, water resources and hydropower production

Dr. Daniele Bocchiola
Prof. Dr. Claudio Cassardo
Prof. Dr. Guglielmina Diolaiuti
Guest Editors

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