Advances in the Relationship Between Climate Change and Runoff in Watershed
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 10
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrological modeling; climate change; environmental flow; uncertainty; water resources management
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Dear Colleagues,
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) states that in many regions, changes in precipitation and melting of snow and ice are altering hydrological systems and affecting the quantity and quality of water resources. Future projections of river runoff are primarily influenced by two main climate indices: precipitation and air temperature. From now on, representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios, global climate models (GCMs), and downscaling methods (SD) are being used to determine climate projections and future changes in the river hydrological regime. The different approaches to preparing climate input data and to hydrological modeling of river runoff have affected the variability of runoff projections in the river catchments. The evaluation of uncertainties associated with selected sources (RCP, GCM, SD, hydrological model parameters, etc.) is necessary for more accurate projections of future runoff changes. Currently, there is a particular lack of research on river runoff projection assessment in ungauged river basins.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to the following:
- Relationship between climate and runoff projections in different river catchments;
- Variability of river runoff projections in time and space for different hydrological regions;
- Evaluation of uncertainty of runoff projections under a future climate;
- Assessment of river runoff projections in the ungauged river catchments;
- Error evaluation in river runoff projections under various climate input data.
Dr. Jūratė Kriaučiūnienė
Guest Editor
Dr. Serhii Nazarenko
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- hydrological modeling
- climate scenarios
- global models
- downscaling
- runoff projections
- uncertainty
- ungauged rivers
- reanalysis data
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