Impacts of Climate Change on Extreme Hydro-Climatic Events: Droughts and Floods
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 1794
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate variability; climate change; dynamical downscaling; statistical downscaling; streamflow variability; drought; extreme events; teleconnections; seasonal forecasting
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Interests: climate change; regional climate models; climate projections; convection-permitting models; climate variability; hydrological models; flood hazards; drought; land–atmosphere feedback; aridity
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Interests: climate variability; climate change; seasonal prediction; decadal prediction; climate change projections; downscaling techniques; regional climate models; convection-permitting models; streamflow variability; drought
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is having a profound impact on extreme hydro-climatic events. On the one hand, droughts are becoming more frequent and severe, leading to reduced agricultural yields, water scarcity, and ecosystem stress. These dry spells also pose health and economic impacts in many parts of the world.
On the other hand, floods and extreme precipitation events are increasing in intensity and frequency, particularly in coastal regions. Rising sea levels, storm surges, and altered precipitation patterns contribute to more severe flooding and devasting effects. This results, among other negative impacts, in damage to critical infrastructure, land displacement, and water quality issues.
Implementing strategies for sustainable water management, resilient infrastructure, and early warning systems is essential to address these evolving hydro-climatic challenges and reduce their impacts on communities and ecosystems. To address these challenges, accurate climate projections as well as forecasting at different time scales (from seasonal to decadal) are crucial as climate services tools. This information can help communities and governments make appropriate decisions about water resource management, infrastructure planning, and disaster preparedness.
This Special Issue offers an opportunity to publish papers related to the impacts of climate change on extreme hydro-climatic events, specifically droughts and floods, but also those related to other extreme precipitation compound extreme events. Papers focused on observed and projected changes during the near and far future in the 21st century from different spatial scales and methodological approaches (statistical, physical, GCMs, downscaling, hydrological modeling, etc.) are welcome for submission. Papers dealing with climate change implications in topics such as water management are also of interest.
Dr. María Jesús Esteban Parra
Dr. Matilde García-Valdecasas Ojeda
Dr. Sonia Raquel Gámiz-Fortis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- drought
- flood
- extreme events
- climate models
- downscaling
- water management
- extreme precipitation compound events
