Monitoring Water Resources Under Climate Change and Human Activities: Multivariate Assessment and Sustainable Management

Dear Colleagues,

Global climate change and human activities continue to affect water resource management and the balance between different components of the water cycle, thus presenting a series of challenges for global water management. The state of water resources mainly depends on the nonlinear changes of key parameters such as temperature increase, changes in precipitation patterns, evapotranspiration (ET) fluctuations and imbalances in soil moisture. Although some progress has been made in recent decades, research into the impact of climate change on hydrology and water resources remains incomplete.

This Special Issue, titled “Monitoring Water Resources Under Climate Change and Human Activities: Multivariate Assessment and Sustainable Management”, hopes to combine knowledge of hydrology, meteorology, geographic information science and other fields through multidisciplinary integration. It aims to provide scientific support to manage the water resource crisis under climate change, carrying out the accurate monitoring and comprehensive assessment of various key variables related to water resources. We encourage the submission of in-depth research conducted on the evolution laws and internal mechanisms of water resources under climate change at the watershed, regional and global scales, and we seek studies that explore the establishment of a water resource monitoring system and dynamic management model that can adapt to climate change. We also welcome research on the observation and estimated changes of hydrological variables (precipitation, evapotranspiration (ET), runoff, soil moisture, etc.) at different spatial scales and via various methods (downscaling methods, dround-based observation methods, hydrological simulation, etc.). Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Water supply, demand and availability: Dynamic changes in the relationship between water supply and demand and availability assessments.
• Surface water and groundwater monitoring: Sharing cutting-edge technologies in surface water and groundwater monitoring and scientific and effective management strategies.
• Agricultural water use and climate change: Trends in agricultural water demand and new trends in agricultural water availability under climate change.
• Precipitation variability: Challenges to water resource allocation induced by extreme droughts, floods and other precipitation events and strategies to manage these issues.
• Evapotranspiration (ET): The mechanism of influence of ET on available water resources during water consumption by vegetation.
• Soil water: How soil water status affects agricultural irrigation needs and ways to improve water efficiency.
• Water disasters and risk assessment: Risk assessment studies on water-related disasters.
• Water resource research and modeling analysis: Achievements in model construction and application in research on water resources such as hydrological prediction and sensitivity analysis.
• The optimal allocation of water resource management, water-saving measures and policy formulation.

Dr. Weiwei Zhu
Guest Editor

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