Hydroclimatic Changes in the Cold Regions
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 July 2026 | Viewed by 18
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydroclimatology; climate change; hydrological processes in cold regions; hydrological modeling; permafrost hydrology; hydrological monitoring
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Interests: arctic climate; hydroclimatology of cold regions; climate dynamics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The cold regions of the Earth including the pan-Arctic drainage basin and alpine areas are experiencing unprecedented climate-induced environmental changes as well as increasing human impact. These regions are warming at a greater rate than the rest of the planet, and the regional water and energy cycles are undergoing rapid transformations as a consequence of complex interactions of multiple drivers and feedbacks. A broad spectrum of observational evidence suggests potentially intensified water/energy cycles in these regions and significant changes in different components of hydroclimatic systems, including increases in air temperature and evapotranspiration, changes in precipitation, snow cover, river flow and river biogeochemistry, permafrost degradation and the melting of glaciers, vegetation expansion, decrease in river/lake ice and increase in water temperature.
This Special Issue of Water invites papers focusing on the quantification of contemporary and future changes in various components of hydroclimatic systems in cold regions of the Earth and on the assessment of the potential causes of these changes through the analysis of various data (ground, field and remote sensing) and/or numerical modeling. We also invite publications discussing how the hydroclimatic changes in the cold regions affect other parts of the world.
Dr. Alexander Shiklomanov
Dr. Vladimir Alexeev
Dr. Hotaek Park
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Arctic climate change
- permafrost changes and feedback
- snow and permafrost hydrology
- ecohydrology of cold regions
- hydrological processes in cold regions
- river biogeochemistry in cold regions
- Arctic water cycle
- hydroclimatology of cold regions
- hydrological modelling
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