Glacier Watershed Responses to Climate Change
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2020) | Viewed by 7500
Special Issue Editor
Interests: glaciers; global warming; cryosphere
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Dear Colleagues,
Glacier watersheds are sensitive to the input of glacier runoff melting fastest in the summer when precipitation is often lowest and water demand from society is largest. In glacier watersheds, glacier runoff is important for water resource, the specific cascade of impacts downstream which varies from ecologic to agricultural, hydropower production, aquatic life, and municipal water supply. The rapid decline of alpine glaciers is a consistent trend from mountain range to mountain range, emphasizing that though regional climate and glacier response differ, global changes are driving the response. The trend of glacier loss is expected to increase with continued anthropogenic warming leading to changes in the timing and magnitude of glacier runoff. The goal of this Special Issue is to examine the watershed responses to climate change. Papers are sought that identify the impacts for glacier watersheds, including changes in erosion rates, nutrient flux, aquatic life, local ecology, water runoff, and flood hazards on two time scales. The first is longer-term watershed change within glacier watersheds. The second is specific recent hydrologic event driven observations in glacier watersheds, including flooding, low flow, and water quality impacts. At the end of the Introduction section, we recommend a 300-word plain language story-based summary, without references.
Prof. Dr. Mauri Pelto
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- alpine glaciers
- glacier runoff
- watershed
- climate change
- hydrologic event
- alpine aquatic ecology
- alpine hydrology
