Remote Sensing of Hydrometeorological Extremes

Dear Colleagues,

The current intensification of hydroclimatic hazards due to climate change is posing several threats to human security causing humanitarian, environmental, and financial disasters. Climate change alters hydrometeorological variables, like temperature and precipitation, and produces changes in the partitioning of precipitation into evapotranspiration and runoff. This exacerbates hydroclimatic extremes like floods, droughts, heat waves and landslides, which have been revealing an unprecedented intensification during the last two decades.

In this scenario, monitoring hydroclimatic variables is of paramount importance for predicting and facing these extreme events, but it is also a difficult task due to the scarcity and sharp decline of in-situ measurement around the world. Remote sensing together with advanced modeling techniques offers an unprecedented opportunity to improve our understanding of underlying hydrological processes and allows assessing the likelihood, extent, and uncertainty of extreme events in order to mitigate their impacts.

This Special Issue aims at documenting not only the most recent progress in the methods used to monitor, model, and forecast hydroclimatic extremes, but also at understanding how changes in frequency and magnitude of hydroclimatic variables project into extreme events. The Special Issue also encourages studies that investigate the changes and trends of extreme events—e.g., river floods, flash floods, extreme temperatures, heat and cold waves, droughts and landslides—using remote sensing observations.

Dr. Christian Massari
Dr. Viviana Maggioni
Dr. Luca Ciabatta
Dr. Manuela Girotto
Dr. Yves Tramblay
Guest Editors

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