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Advanced Statistical Modelling in Climate Change

A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263). This special issue belongs to the section "Climate".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 2563

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Sandhya Patidar

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School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK
Interests: mathematical/statistical modelling; AI; energy; water; climate change; extreme events
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Dr. K.S. Kasiviswanathan

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Department of Water Resources Development and Management, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India
Interests: hydrological modelling; climate change impact; reservoir operation; flood and drought management; optimization and uncertainty quantification
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Dr. Soundharajan Swamy

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Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Coimbatore, India
Interests: analysis and assessment of climate change impacts on water resources; irrigation water management; planning and management of water resources systems; urban water systems; water-energy-food nexus
Prof. Dr. Adebayo J. Adeloye

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School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Interests: water resources planning and management; artificial intelligence modelling of environmental systems; climate change impacts on water resources; groudwater evaluation, modelling and management; statistical analysis of floods and low flows; hydro-meteorological data
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change is one of the most pressing global issues and it is affecting almost every aspect of our life. To explore the impacts of climate change, recently, substaintial growth in the developments of advanced statistical modelling and data-science approaches has been noted. This Special Issue of Geosciences is aimed to collate high-quality research papers that cover novel developments and applications in the areas of advanced statistical modelling (ASM) approaches or understanding climate change, adaptation, resilience, mitigation strategies and associated wider impacts. In particular, we encourage submissions that highlight multi-disciplinary research work involving ASM for climate change in impact areas of water resources, extreme events, hydrology, machine-learning/artificial intelligence, forecasting, remote sensing and geoinformatics, geology, soil contaminants, ecology and environmental sciences.

I hope you are interested in submitting to the Special Issue collection.

Dr. Sandhya Patidar
Dr. K.S. Kasiviswanathan
Dr. Soundharajan Bankaru Swamy
Prof. Dr. Adebayo J. Adeloye
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Keywords

  • advanced statistical modelling
  • data science
  • climate change
  • forecasting
  • hydrology
  • geology
  • ecology
  • machine-learning/AI
  • remote sensing and geoinformatics
  • environmental sciences

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Quantifying Drought Characteristics in Complex Climate and Scarce Data Regions of Afghanistan
by Rahmatullah Dost, Bankaru-Swamy Soundharajan, Kasiapillai S. Kasiviswanathan and Sandhya Patidar
Geosciences 2023, 13(12), 355; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13120355 - 21 Nov 2023
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Droughts cause critical and major risk to ecosystems, agriculture, and social life. While attempts have been made globally to understand drought characteristics, data scarcity in developing countries often challenges detailed analysis, including climatic, environmental, and social aspects. Therefore, this study developed a framework [...] Read more.
Droughts cause critical and major risk to ecosystems, agriculture, and social life. While attempts have been made globally to understand drought characteristics, data scarcity in developing countries often challenges detailed analysis, including climatic, environmental, and social aspects. Therefore, this study developed a framework to investigate regional drought analysis (RDA) using regional drought intensity-duration-frequency (RD-IDF) curves and regional drought risk assessment (RDRA) based on the drought hazard indicator (DHI) and drought vulnerability indicator (DVI) for scarce data regions in Afghanistan. The drought characteristics were analyzed using the regional standardized-precipitation-index (SPI), and standardized precipitation-deficit distribution (SPDD). Further, L-moment statistics were used to classify different homogenous regions based on regional frequency analysis (RFA). The historical monthly precipitation data from 23 rainfall stations for the years 1970 to 2016 were collected from the Ministry of Water and Energy of Afghanistan. Based on the analysis performed, the area was classified into six homogeneous regions R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, R-5, and R-6. The drought was very consistent—almost 50% of the years—irrespective of the homogeneous region classified. R-4, located in the northeast of the country, had a one-year extreme drought with high resiliency and low risk to drought compared to other regions. As R-1, R-3 and R-5 are located in the southwest, center and southeast parts of Afghanistan, they experience moderate drought with low resiliency and high drought risk due to long period of droughts. Moreover, the uniform distribution of precipitation deficit (Dm), was less in arid climate regions. In contrast, the semi-arid climate regions showed higher values of Dm. Furthermore, in the results in all the regions, the IDF curves showed a high drought intensity with increasing drought return periods. In contrast, the intensity significantly decreased when the time scale increased, and fewer were enhanced within the increasing drought return period. However, the outcome of this study may contain essential information for end users to make spatially advanced planning for drought effect mitigation in Afghanistan. Full article
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