Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources: Assessment and Modeling, 3rd Edition
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2026 | Viewed by 3
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate change; time series analysis; river regime; water resource management; water balance; watershed hydrology; watershed management
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Interests: flow regime; flow seasonality; thermal conditions; water chemistry; ice phenomena; climate change; human activity; methods of detecting changes and classifying river regimes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water resources are a national source of wealth, and their availability is essential to sustain life and human activities. The amount and availability of water resources in the world vary spatially and temporally, with an increasing number of places facing severe water shortages.
It is predicted that climate change will significantly affect the spatiotemporal distribution of water resources, leading to the transformation of the water cycle in the catchment and changes in the structure of the water balance. An increase in deep low flows in rivers is expected, which may reduce surface water and groundwater resources. In lowland catchments, evapotranspiration will increase at the expense of water resources, causing a reduction. The acceleration of the hydrological cycle may lead to increasingly frequent water-related extreme events, including droughts and floods. The expected changes in water resource availability may result in periodic deficits in the water supplied to the population, as well as shortages in agriculture and forestry, which could entail severe socioeconomic losses.
Being aware of these threats and taking action to mitigate their future effects is necessary.
Current forecasts of water consumption trends resulting from socioeconomic development and the climatic changes that overlap with them are subject to considerable uncertainty. Climate models (including global circulation of the atmosphere) and demographic and economic development models do not yet enable precise projections of changes in the hydrological cycle and water resource availability.
This Special Issue invites researchers to present their results of new findings from the assessment and modeling of hydrological processes and water resources under the conditions of climate change, regularities in their spatiotemporal variability in relation to water management, and the related threats.
Prof. Dr. Leszek Sobkowiak
Prof. Dr. Dariusz Wrzesiński
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- water resources
- water use
- surface water
- ground water
- variability
- projections of change
- water regime
- seasonality
- changes in lake water resources
- modeling changes
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