From Rainfall to Aquatic Ecosystems: Hydrological Processes and Environmental Effects
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecohydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2026 | Viewed by 21
Special Issue Editors
Interests: rainwater chemistry; atmospheric pollution and source appointment; environmental isotope geochemistry; earth surface processes; circulation of materials
Interests: hydrology; hydro-geochemistry; water chemistry; water quality; aquatic geochemistry; isotopic geochemistry
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Dear Colleagues,
One of the most important limiting factors for global sustainable development is the imbalance between unevenly distributed water resources and water requirements. Against the background of climate change and the globalization of environmental issues, it is crucial to identify and characterize the influence of natural processes (e.g., rainfall) and anthropogenic input on surface/ground water environments in order to achieve high-efficiency water environmental management and the sustainable use of water resources. In fact, rainfall is a critical sink of atmospheric pollutants via two key processes, that is, in-cloud (dissolution) and below-cloud (scour) processes, which can further disturb the earth-surface aquatic system. Meanwhile, the surface/ground water eco-environment act as an important unit of surface hydrosphere, supporting social and economic development in most parts of the world. Water environmental issues, driven by rainfall-related natural processes and anthropogenic pollution, still pose many challenges for water protection and management. By identifying the geochemical cycle of elements and the sources of pollutants during rainfall-related surface/ground water processes (in environments including rivers, reservoirs, and subterranean rivers), combined with hydrological/isotopic methods, the mechanisms of eco-environment changes on different scales can be explored.
For this Special Issue, we invite papers dealing with surface/ground water eco-environmental effects driven by rainfall-related processes and anthropogenic influences, mainly focusing on the quality and contamination of these water bodies and their environmental geochemistry effects. This topic could be addressed from several different perspectives, including (but not limited) to the following:
1) Rainwater/rainfall chemical compositions and spatiotemporal evolution in different eco-environmental systems.
2）Surface/ground water environmental quality evolution driven by rainfall-related processes and/or various anthropogenic influences.
3) Element/pollutant geochemical cycles of different water bodies (e.g., rainwater, river water, reservoirs water, and subterranean river water) driven by human activities and hydrological factors.
4) Identification/quantification of pollutant sources in rainwater and surface/ground water environments.
5) Assessment of eco-environmental effects and/or ecological risk and human health risk of pollutants in rainwater and surface/ground water environments.
6) Isotope tracing of geochemical processes of atmosphere–hydrosphere interactions.
Prof. Dr. Jie Zeng
Prof. Dr. Guilin Han
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rainwater
- surface/ground water
- rainfall processes
- water pollution
- materials cycle
- source iden-tification
- industrial discharge
- atmosphere–hydrosphere interactions
- environmental isotopes
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