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Modelling for the Influences of Climate and Landscape Processes on Hydrology

A special issue of Climate (ISSN 2225-1154).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 4896

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Prof. Dr. Lidija Tadić

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Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University Josip Juraj Strossmayer of Osijek, 31000 Osijek, Croatia
Interests: water management
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Prof. Dr. Enikő Anna Tamás

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Faculty of Water Sciences, University of Public Service, H-6500 Baja, Hungary
Interests: hydrology; hydrometry; river management; wetland management
Dr. Melita Mihaljević

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Department of Biology, University Josip Juraj Strossmayer of Osijek, 31000 Osijek, Croatia
Interests: freshwater ecology; phytoplankton; river-floodplain ecosystems

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to announce that article submission is now open to the Special Issue of Climate, “Modelling for the Influences of Climate and Landscape Processes on Hydrology".

The landscape is evolving through time as a result of being acted upon by natural forces and human beings. Its interaction with water is very strong.  For millennia, water has shaped the landscape, its topography, and its land cover, and the landscape has impacted the storage and movement of water. Have these processes accelerated in the 21st century? This question has recently appeared in science, but interest in this complex and its far-reaching problems is rapidly rising. We can detect climate change indices already, such as urbanisation, land cover change, or more frequent fires emerging. In order to develop effective mitigation measures, like possibilities of landscape rehabilitation and nature-based solutions, we have to face the problem and explore its prevalence. This must be based on sufficient and reliable data, advanced methodological approaches, and sophisticated models. In this Special Issue, we focus on the following topics:

  • impacts of climate change on water balance;
  • impacts of climate change on landscape; 
  • landscape-based hydrological models;
  • scaling and scale issues in the problem of landscape processes in hydrology;
  • river restoration as a measure of landscape rehabilitation in climate change conditions;
  • impacts of landscape change on water balance;
  • methodological approaches to assess impacts of climate change on landscape;
  • positive and negative examples of hydrological landscape processes.

Prof. Dr. Lidija Tadić
Prof. Dr. Enikő Anna Tamás
Dr. Melita Mihaljević
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Climate is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • hydrology
  • landscape
  • modelling
  • climate change
  • landscape rehabilitation
  • mitigation measures

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Assessing the Long-Term Production of Suspended Sediment and the Climate Changes Impact on Its Deposition in Artificial Lakes—A Case Study of Lake Trakošćan, Croatia
by Dijana Oskoruš, Karlo Leskovar, Krešimir Pavlić and Igor Tošić
Climate 2023, 11(8), 167; https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11080167 - 02 Aug 2023
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A prevalent engineering task in practice is calculating the annual balance of sediments on some watercourses. This is particularly challenging when assessing the backfilling of river reservoirs that have a multifunctional purpose. Trakošćan Lake was built in the period from 1850 to 1862 [...] Read more.
A prevalent engineering task in practice is calculating the annual balance of sediments on some watercourses. This is particularly challenging when assessing the backfilling of river reservoirs that have a multifunctional purpose. Trakošćan Lake was built in the period from 1850 to 1862 as a pond and landscape addition to the park and Trakošćan castle. After 60 years, the lake was drained in 2022, and the work began on sediment excavation to improve the lake’s ecological condition due to about 200,000 cubic meters of deposited silt in the lake. In this research, the annual sediment production is calculated for the long-term period 1961–2020, based on empirical parametric methods (Fleming, Brunne). The results are compared with results from previous projects and recent sediment deposit investigations. Since there are no changes in LC/LU on this natural catchment, the decreasing trends in long-term sediment transport were compared with meteorological values, daily rainfall, and snow days. It is concluded that the intensity characteristics of the rainfall should be investigated more in detail and could provide much more tangible information regarding climate change impacts. Some targets for future monitoring design and research techniques are set. Full article
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Climate Change Effects on River Flow in Eastern Europe: Arctic Rivers vs. Southern Rivers
by Andrey Kalugin
Climate 2023, 11(5), 103; https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11050103 - 09 May 2023
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The hydrological model ECOMAG was used to calculate runoff characteristics in the main arctic (Northern Dvina and Pechora) and southern (Don and Kuban) river basins of Eastern Europe using the data from the ensemble of global climate models under the scenario of 1.5 [...] Read more.
The hydrological model ECOMAG was used to calculate runoff characteristics in the main arctic (Northern Dvina and Pechora) and southern (Don and Kuban) river basins of Eastern Europe using the data from the ensemble of global climate models under the scenario of 1.5 and 2 °C global warming in the 21st century relative to pre-industrial values. Flow generation models were calibrated and validated based on runoff measurements at gauging stations using meteorological observation data. According to the results of numerical experiments, the relative change in river runoff in European Russia increases from north to south and from east to west under global warming of 1.5 to 2 °C. As a result, hydrological systems in milder climate were found to be more vulnerable to climate change. The assessment of flow anomalies in European Russia under the selected climate scenarios revealed the following general features: winter runoff in arctic rivers would increase, spring melt runoff in the Northern Dvina and Don would decrease, and summer–autumn runoff in all studied rivers would decrease to varying degrees. The most negative runoff anomalies are characterized in the southwestern part of the Northern Dvina basin, the middle part of the Don basin, and the lowland part of the Kuban basin, whereas positive runoff anomalies are characterized in the northern and eastern parts of the Pechora basin. Global warming of 1.5 to 2 °C would have the greatest impact on the rate of reduction of Kuban summer–autumn runoff and Don runoff during the spring flood, as well as the increase in Northern Dvina and Pechora winter runoff. Full article
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Dynamic Modeling of the Trophic Status of an Urban Tropical Wetland under ENSO Conditions
by Leidy Gisselle García-León, Julio Eduardo Beltrán-Vargas and Carlos Alfonso Zafra-Mejía
Climate 2023, 11(3), 61; https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11030061 - 07 Mar 2023
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The climate variability associated with the ENSO phenomenon has a significant impact on wetlands, affecting the total precipitation input and hydrological flows of these ecosystems. The objective of this paper is to study the trophic status variation of an urban tropical wetland under [...] Read more.
The climate variability associated with the ENSO phenomenon has a significant impact on wetlands, affecting the total precipitation input and hydrological flows of these ecosystems. The objective of this paper is to study the trophic status variation of an urban tropical wetland under ENSO conditions, through dynamic modeling. The results suggest an increase in precipitation, by 3.32 times, during the La Niña phase compared to the El Niño phase. Wetland input total phosphorus (TP) concentrations are 1.85 times lower during La Niña. This is probably due to a dilution effect exerted by the increase in surface runoff volumes from the basin. The findings suggest a reduction in wetland hydraulic retention time (HRT) during La Niña (1.33 times) compared to El Niño. This trend causes the TP concentration inside the wetland to decrease, possibly due to an increase in the water volume stored (dilution), and by the exit of this nutrient due to a shorter hydraulic renewal (HRT/La Niña < HRT/El Niño). The occurrence of a high input of TP concentration to the wetland does not necessarily indicate a high trophic status index (TSI). This is because the trophic status of the wetland is possibly more associated with HRT rather than input TP concentration. The trophic status of the wetland during the La Niña tends to be eutrophic. Lastly, under ENSO scenarios, the use of Aizaki’s method is suggested, because it considers HRT as a decisive factor for the calculation of wetland trophic status. Full article
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