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Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2020) | Viewed by 8718

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Dr. María Jesús Esteban Parra

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Departamento de Física Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Interests: climate variability; climate change; dynamical downscaling; statistical downscaling; streamflow variability; drought; extreme events; teleconnections; seasonal forecasting
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Dear Colleagues,

Water is essential for life. Climate change can alter the balance between the different components of the hydrological cycle, being one of the main challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, particularly through its impacts on water resources. The question of whether changes in the hydrological cycle can modify precipitation patterns, increase the frequency and intensity of drought episodes, extreme rainfall events, and alter key aspects in atmosphere–land coupling and in the variability of runoff and streamflow, require studies that encompass diverse perspectives, from regional to global, and from time scales addressing from the changes already occurred to those projected in the future, quantifying their causes and their consequences on the water resources.

This Special Issue offers an opportunity to publish papers related to the impacts of climate change on water resources. Papers on observed and projected changes during the 21th century in the different components on the hydrological cycle affecting water resources (precipitation, evapotranspiration, streamflow, soil moisture, etc.) are welcome from different spatial scales and methodological approaches (statistical, physical, GCMs, downscaling, hydrological modeling, etc.), including extreme events studies as drought or examine changes between the coupling between the water cycle components. Papers dealing with the climate change implications in topics, such as water management or hydroenergy, are also of interest.

Dr. María Jesús Esteban Parra
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Keywords

  • Climate change
  • Water resources
  • Hydrological cycle
  • Precipitation
  • Evapotranspiration
  • Streamflow
  • Runoff
  • Soil moisture
  • Groundwater
  • Headwater
  • Drought
  • Extreme precipitation
  • Floods
  • Atmosphere-land interactions
  • Climate models
  • Downscaling
  • Hydrological modelling
  • Water management

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Drought in the Western United States: Its Connections with Large-Scale Oceanic Oscillations
by Peng Jiang, Zhongbo Yu and Kumud Acharya
Atmosphere 2019, 10(2), 82; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10020082 - 16 Feb 2019
Cited by 7 | Viewed by 4153
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In this paper, we applied the Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis on a drought index expressed as consecutive dry days (CDD) to identify the drought variability in western United States. Based on the EOF analysis, correlation maps were generated between the leading principle [...] Read more.
In this paper, we applied the Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis on a drought index expressed as consecutive dry days (CDD) to identify the drought variability in western United States. Based on the EOF analysis, correlation maps were generated between the leading principle component (PC) of seasonal CDD and sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies to explore the dynamic context of the leading modes in CDD. The EOF analysis indicates that the spatiotemporal pattern of winter CDD is related to an integrated impact from El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), and Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation (AMO), while summer CDD is mainly controlled by PDO phases. We also calculated seasonal CDD anomalies during selected climatic phases to further evaluate the impacts of large-scale oceanic oscillation on the spatial pattern of droughts. We found that AMO+/PDO− will contribute to a consistent drought condition during the winter in the western United States. El Niño will bring a dry winter to the northern part of western United States while La Niña will bring a dry winter to the southern part. During El Niño years, the drought center changes with the type of El Niño events. Considering the future states of the examined ocean oscillations, we suggest possible drier than normal conditions in the western United States for upcoming decades, and moreover, an intensified drought for the coast areas of the north Pacific region and upper Mississippi River Basin. Full article
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A Comprehensive Approach to Assess the Hydrological Drought of Inland River Basin in Northwest China
by Nina Zhu, Jianhua Xu, Weihong Li, Kaiming Li and Cheng Zhou
Atmosphere 2018, 9(10), 370; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos9100370 - 22 Sep 2018
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How to measure and quantitatively assess hydrological drought (HD) in the inland river basins of Northwest China is a difficult problem because of the complicated geographical environment and climatic processes. To address this problem, we conducted a comprehensive approach and selected the Aksu [...] Read more.
How to measure and quantitatively assess hydrological drought (HD) in the inland river basins of Northwest China is a difficult problem because of the complicated geographical environment and climatic processes. To address this problem, we conducted a comprehensive approach and selected the Aksu River Basin (ARB) as a typical inland river basin to quantitatively assess the hydrological drought based on the observed data and reanalysis data during the period of 1980–2010. We used two mutual complementing indicators, i.e., the standardized runoff index (SRI) and standardized terrestrial water storage index (SWSI), to quantitatively measure the spatio-temporal pattern of HD, where the SRI calculated from the observed runoff data indicate the time trend of HD of the whole basin, while SWSI extracted from the reanalysis data indicate the spatial pattern of HD. We also used the auto-regressive distribution lag model (ARDL) to show the autocorrelation of HD and its dependence on precipitation, potential evapotranspiration (PET), and soil moisture. The main conclusions are as follows: (a) the western and eastern regions of the ARB were prone to drought, whereas the frequency of drought in the middle of the ARB is relatively lower; (b) HD presents significant autocorrelation with two months’ lag, and soil moisture is correlated with SWSI with two months’ lag, whereas PET and precipitation are correlated with SWSI with 1 month’ lag; (c) the thresholds of HD for annual PET, annual precipitation, and annual average soil moisture are greater than 844.05 mm, less than 134.52 mm, and less than 411.07 kg/m2, respectively. A drought early warning system that is based on the thresholds was designed. Full article
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