Impact of Climate Change on Watershed Hydrology: Latest Advances and Prospects
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 2954
Special Issue Editors
Interests: assessing spatial-temporal patterns of water resources and fluxes; watershed management; integrated model development/optimization/application
Interests: data-driven model; remote sensing; big data application; hydrological modeling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A watershed is an area of land that stores water from snowmelt, rainfall, and aquifer, and delivers water to streams, rivers, lakes, or the ocean. Each watershed is complicated and unique due to its different size, topography, soil, vegetation, land use, water body connection, weather conditions, and management practices. Despite the emergence of scientific progress and novel technologies in watershed hydrology, water resource assessment, hydrologic modeling development, and data-driven analysis, the current knowledge pertaining to the assessment of the vulnerability, resilience, and sustainability of watersheds under climate change is still limited. Climate change and extreme weather events introduce significant uncertainties to watershed management, altering the quantity, quality, timing, and distribution of water, sediment, and nutrients. Two principal meteorological drivers, i.e., precipitation and temperature, can have immediate and long-term effects on the surface, subsurface, and their interactions, and will not affect all parts of a watershed in the same way.This Special Issue aims to provide an overview of the latest advances and prospects in assessing the impacts of climate change on watershed hydrology. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are both welcome. Example topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- New findings and developments in hydrologic modeling, data-driven analysis, field measurement, and management practice;
- Uncertainty quantification of climate change on hydrological responses (water quantity and quality, sediment, and nutrients);
- Climate-induced water resource vulnerabilities (flood, drought, and groundwater/surface water depletion);
- Climate change risk and adaptation.
The new methods and findings presented here will aid in enhancing the resilience of the watershed system to current and future climate change.
Dr. Seonggyu Park
Dr. Heechan Han
Dr. Mohammad Hadi Bazrkar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- watershed management
- hydrologic modeling
- data-driven analysis
- climate change
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