Hydroclimate Extremes: Causes, Impacts, and Mitigation Plans

Dear Colleagues,

Global warming and climate change have already influenced different characteristics (in terms of intensity, frequency, and duration) of hydroclimate extremes such as floods, droughts, and heat waves worldwide. Such alterations in hydroclimate extremes have induced different compound climate/weather events and thereby catastrophic natural disasters, posing serious economic, social, and environmental sustainability risks. This is particularly true for developing countries due to their high human population density, susceptible infrastructure, and poor land use development and management strategies. Hence, there is an imperative need to improve our knowledge about the causes, impacts, and mitigation plans of different hydroclimate extremes, thereby acting toward achieving the 2030 United Nations Agenda of Sustainable Development.

This Special Issue aims to bring together pure theoretical and applied research on a wide range of topics related to understanding, assessing, and managing hydroclimate extreme events in different parts of our planet. We especially encourage submissions on:

1. Meteorological, climatological, agricultural, and hydrological droughts;
2. Fluvial, pluvial, and coastal floods;
3. Intensity, frequency, duration, and extension of heat waves;
4. Extreme precipitation and temperature indices;
5. Compound weather/climate events (e.g., wildfires induced by simultaneous drought and heat waves);
6. The role of climate and land cover-land use changes in hydroclimate extreme alterations;
7. Influential large-scale atmospheric-oceanic circulation patterns for hydroclimate extremes' variability;
8. Application of remote sensing and data assimilation for hydroclimate extremes analyses;
9. Economic, social, and environmental sustainability risks of hydroclimate extremes;
10. Adaptation and mitigation strategies for managing hydroclimate extreme events (e.g., nature-based solutions).

Dr. Masoud Irannezhad
Dr. Anna-Kaisa Ronkanen
Guest Editors

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• climate change
• compound weather/climate events
• hydroclimate extremes (e.g., drought, flood, and heatwave)
• land cover-land use alterations
• mitigation strategies
• nature-based solutions
• sustainability risks