Enhancing the Understanding of the Water Cycle and Climate Change Using Satellite Geodesy
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 July 2025 | Viewed by 342
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Interests: GRACE; machine learning; downscaling research; climate change; water resource management
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Interests: groundwater numerical simulation; GRACE; integrated surface and groundwater simulation; water resource management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Global climate change is worsening, and the loss it continues to inflict on human life and property is immeasurable. The dynamic balance of the water cycle is closely related to climate change, directly reflecting the trends in climate variation. In recent years, frequent climate events such as heavy rain, high temperatures, floods, and droughts have not only potentially reduced the types of vegetation cover and limited the suitable living spaces for humans but also destroyed ecosystems, all of which have caused many to have deep concerns about the future. As an important monitoring tool, satellite geodesy relies on the principles of geodesy to monitor the changes in the Earth’s climate environment. Its purpose is to apply the massive data generated by satellites, along with satellite imagery, meteorological data, geological information, and various Earth hydrological models developed based on satellite data to conduct the in-depth exploration and analysis of global or specific regions. These research findings provide valuable information for policymakers, helping them to develop more effective policies and measures in the hope of promoting sustainability.
This Special Issue aims to use satellite geodesy to enhance researchers’ understanding of climate change and the water cycle, while also paying attention to changes in the Earth’s ecological environment under the imbalance of the water cycle. We encourage researchers to submit high-quality papers related to this topic, which not only provide an in-depth analysis of current issues but also offer new perspectives and methods for future research. We welcome the submission of conceptual and empirical papers for novel ideas and inspiration related to the following topics:
- Combination of GRACE and GNSS for the monitoring of terrestrial water storage changes;
- Development of drought and flood indices based on GRACE/GRACE-FO;
- Innovation and practice of water resource management strategies under climate change;
- Determination of the changes in river basin vegetation coverage under the influence of floods and droughts;
- Long-term prediction of runoff data based on machine learning;
- Interpretation of the river basin water cycle using multi-source remote sensing data;
- Analysis of the impact of human activities on climate change and the environment;
- Improvement in the accuracy of water resource quantification using global hydrological models.
Dr. Wenjie Yin
Prof. Dr. Litang Hu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- geodesy and remote sensing
- GRACE
- flood and drought events
- machine learning
- human ac-tivities
- eco-environmental changes
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