Dear Colleagues,

Climate change has significantly influenced the movement of water through the land, oceans, and the atmosphere. It has many implications on watershed hydrological processes, resulting in severe droughts, floods, sea-level rise, and storms. To overcome such unprecedented climate change impacts on the watershed hydrologic cycle, modeling is one of the best tools to simulate watershed hydrological processes. In recent decades, hydrologic models have been used to simulate hydrologic processes based on historical data. However, the response and simulation of the watershed hydrological cycle under climate change have not been well studied. An advanced simulation of the watershed hydrologic cycle is needed to better predict the impacts of climate change using robust models and machine learning.

This Special Issue, “Response and Simulation of Watershed Hydrological Cycle under Climate Change”, will focus on better understanding future watershed hydrologic simulation cycles with more accurate and reliable information. Therefore, new research studies are required to investigate the impacts of climate change on watershed hydrologic processes. Hence, we invite article submissions that contribute but are not limited to the following thematic areas:

• Response and simulation of watershed processes under climate change;
• Watershed models and machine learning techniques to simulate watershed hydrologic cycles under different land-use changes;
• Impacts of extreme events and climate changes on water resources;
• Water–energy–food–land nexus as a framework for achieving sustainable water management and their impacts.

Dr. Nigus Demelash Melaku
Dr. Anoop Valiya Veettil
Dr. Di Liu
Guest Editors

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• watershed process
• process-based models
• climate change
• hydrologic cycle
• evapotranspiration
• temperature
• runoff
• streamflow
• groundwater
• machine learning
• climate extremes
• water–energy–food–land nexus