Forest Hydrometeorology

Dear Colleagues,

During the last few decades, it has become a primary goal in the biophysical sciences to enhance the knowledge on how forests and water interact. The study of the relations between hydrological cycle components, climate, and weather attributes and the forest type and elements (including vegetation species composition, distribution, canopy architecture etc.) is fundamental to understand how they will respond under different forest management and cope with the changing climate and weather conditions. This is highly important due to the increased challenges faced by forests because of biotic and abiotic disturbances (e.g., wildfire, insect infestation). To that end, long-term time series from forest meteorological stations are necessary for hydrometeorological analysis and trend detection. In particular, this Special Issue aims to investigate the effects and the role of forest vegetation and climate variability on water balance, soil erosion, and water quality and identify future risks for forest ecosystems induced by rapidly changing climate or adverse weather conditions. We therefore invite researchers and experts to present their innovative contributions in the following indicative study areas:

• Forest meteorology and agrometeorology;
• Forest hydrology;
• Forest climatology;
• Forests monitoring;
• Forest cover and peak discharges—watershed lag time;
• Water balance modeling in forested watersheds;
• Provision of ecosystem services;
• Soil erosion (modeling, monitoring, and mitigation treatments);
• Drought;
• Forest health;
• Evapotranspiration;
• Solar radiation distribution in forests, use and efficiency;
• Tree line shift and climate variability;
• Climate change effects;
• Wildfire effects on hydrological and erosion processes;
• Post-fire erosion mitigation treatments;
• Impacts of restoration projects on forest hydrology and micrometeorology;
• Natural-based solutions (NBs) for increasing water retention capacity;
• Remote sensing in forest hydrology;
• Long-term analysis of hydrometeorological parameters (precipitation, temperature, snow accumulation, evapotranspiration);
• Relationship between forest structure and interception–throughfall–stemflow;
• Silvicultural treatments and surface runoff;
• Urban forests’ hydrometeorological characteristics;
• Ecosystems water and energy budgets;
• Mass and energy fluxes in forests.

Dr. Nikolaos Proutsos
Dr. Stefanos Stefanidis
Guest Editors

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