Accounting for Climate Change in Water and Agriculture Management

Dear Colleagues,

The relationships between water, agriculture, and climate are highly interdependent and complex. Weather and climate-related disasters such as droughts, floods, and wildfires are becoming far too common. Over the last decade, the global economic impact of these disasters has increased threefold with hundreds of millions of people experiencing varying degrees of economic losses and food insecurity. Climate change can affect water resources through spatial and temporal variability in precipitation, snow water storage, surface runoff, streamflow, and extreme events, such as droughts and floods. These changes can disrupt agricultural production and threaten global food security. Therefore, monitoring and understanding of hydrometeorological states for potential impacts on agricultural production are key contributors to an early warning of food insecurity. The use of field-based observational techniques is a challenging task at global to regional scales. However, the advances in remote-sensing-based earth observation data, new satellite sensors, and improved climate and land surface modeling techniques are enabling us to monitor, understand, and predict climate change impacts on water availability, agricultural production, and productivity for food security implications.           

For this Special Issue, we invite authors to submit research work that details recent advances in climate change impact assessment techniques, especially those methods that have addressed water availability and potential food security applications. We welcome contributions that cover a range from basic science and theories to application studies around the following topics:

• Use of surface hydrology models for water resource assessment;
• Use of in situ, satellite, and modeled data in surface hydrology models;
• Use of satellite and modeled data for drought and flood vulnerability assessments;
• Multi-source data assimilation for improved hydrological accounting and forecasting;
• Development, improvement, validation, and comparison of hydrometeorological datasets;
• Water availability assessment and forecasting;
• Basin water accounting methods, forecasting, and applications;
• Shifts in precipitation patterns and extremes;
• Melting glaciers and snow drought;
• Sustainable use of land and water under changing climate;
• Climate forecast applications for food security and agricultural management;
• Case studies on climate-smart water and agricultural management.

Dr. Md Shahriar Pervez
Dr. Naga Manohar Velpuri
Guest Editors

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