Impact of Climate Change on Land and Water Systems
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land–Climate Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 1240
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
(1) Introduction, including scientific background and highlighting the importance of this research area.
As the global climate continues to change, we are witnessing profound alterations in the Earth's land and water systems. This Special Issue delves into these ramifications, with an explicit focus on hydrology and soil processes, such as water harvest, greenhouse gas emissions, soil moisture, soil carbon, soil erosion, and their monitoring, modeling (process-based, statistical, AI), and management. Increases in global GHG emissions are affecting global temperatures (IPCC, 2014a), the water cycle, and elevating CO2. Due to changes in the global climate, with associated increases in the return period, size, and duration of extreme high-temperature events, subsequent heat stresses are predicted (and are already happening) to occur, along with changes in rainfall and rainfall extremes (IPCC, 2014a). All these changes cause an increasing water scarcity across the globe (Gosling and Arnell, 2016). At a landscape scale, these changes impact the biophysical process and alter water–soil–plant–animal interactions (Ghahramani and Bowran, 2018), soil moisture dynamics (Holsten et al., 2009), and soil degradation (Klik and Eitzinger, 2010), all affecting the productivity and quality of agricultural production and consequently food security at a larger regional and global scale (Wheeler et al., 2013).
The impending repercussions of these amplified processes are multi-fold. For example, they include the increased frequency/magnitude of extreme events, loss of fertile topsoil, reduced agricultural productivity, alteration of aquatic ecosystems, and increased risk of erosion.
This Special Issue brings together research exploring these topics, attempting to deepen our understanding of the interactions between climate change and land and water systems. We aim to foster dialogue on exploring impacts and proactive adaptation strategies and innovative mitigation approaches, driving toward the sustainable management of our increasingly vulnerable environments under a changing climate. Through broad collaboration and knowledge sharing, we strive to prepare ourselves for the evolving challenges of climate change.
(2) Aim of the Special Issue and how the subject relates to the journal scope.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) which provide insights into the impact of climate change on land and water at different scales, preferably with a systemic approach. This will cover (but is not limited to) the application of modeling in water and climate change (process-based, statistical, AI), water harvest, flood, GHG emissions, soil moisture, soil carbon, soil health, and soil erosion, as well as their monitoring, modeling, and management.
(3) Suggested themes and article types for submissions.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Climate change: impact, adaptation, mitigation, GHG emissions;
- AI application in climate change and water sciences;
- Surface hydrology: water harvest, irrigation, flood affected by climate change;
- Soil health, e.g., carbon, moisture affected by climate change;
- Soil erosion affected by climate change, hillslope erosion, gully, stream bank, sediment disasters, e.g., mudflow, debris flow.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Afshin Ghahramani
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate change impact
- water
- climate change adaptation
- soil
- hydrology
- erosion
- landscape
