Exploring the Variations and Interplay of Drought and Heatwaves: Uncovering the Associated Mechanisms and Impacts (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecological Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2025 | Viewed by 556
Special Issue Editors
2. Hydraulics and Geotechnics Section, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 40, BE-3001 Leuven, Belgium
Interests: extreme climatic events; climate change and human health impacts; hydrology modeling; water resources; vegetation remote sensing
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Interests: climate change; extreme climate; climate model; arid and semiarid climate; geography; water resource; nonlinear time series analysis; impact of the climate change on human health
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Interests: detection of extreme climate events; impact of anthropogenic climate change and human activities on water resources; hydroclimatic change and risk assessment
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Interests: drought and flood disasters projection and forecast; risk assessment; monitoring and early warning based on statistical methods; physical models; remote sensing technology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Increasing surface temperatures associated with global climate change are projected to cause heatwaves and droughts to become more frequent and extreme in many parts of the world. Moreover, there exists a potential interplay between drought and heatwave events, which means that drought can exacerbate the severity of heatwave events, and vice versa. These extreme events have had a significant impact on the environmental ecosystem and socioeconomic activities, which is expected to worsen in the future, especially with the compounded effects of drought and heatwave (CDHW) episodes. Although some effort has been made to investigate the temporal and spatial variations of drought and heatwaves, the knowledge regarding their interplay and associated mechanisms is still limited. Therefore, this Special Issue focuses on exploring the variations and interplay of drought and heatwaves and uncovering the associated mechanisms and impacts. The previous volume of Exploring the Variations and Interplay of Drought and Heatwaves: Uncovering the Associated Mechanisms and Impacts was a great success.
This new Special Issue aims to continue collecting high quality contribution may focus on, but are not limited to:
- Identification and variation analysis of regional drought and heatwave events;
- The interplay between climate variability and drought and heatwaves;
- Exploring the implication or impacts of drought and heatwaves;
- Projecting the variations of drought and heatwaves in different climate scenarios;
- Compound drought and heatwave (CDHW) events;
- Uncovering the interactions between drought and heatwaves at different scales;
- Remote sensing and early warning systems for drought and heatwaves;
- Clarifying the mechanisms behind drought and heatwaves;
- Adaptation strategies for drought and heatwaves.
Dr. Jinping Liu
Prof. Dr. Zengyun Hu
Dr. Hui Tao
Dr. Hongquan Sun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heatwave and drought
- spatio-temporal variations
- mechanisms
- potential impacts
- compound events
- interplay
- projection
- adaptation strategies
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