Water Availability under Climate Change
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Air, Climate Change and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2023) | Viewed by 7329
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The sensitivity of water availability to climate change is receiving an increasing amount of attention as the world’s population growth continues. Although water is one of the most abundant resources on our planet, less than 1% is freshwater available for agricultural, industrial, and other consumptive uses. As such, understanding how this limited terrestrial water resource changes under global warming is of critical importance for water management and policy/decision making.
This Special Issue aims to bring together recent advances in regional water assessments across a range of time scales, from the historical change perspective to future change scenarios. For a better understanding of the physical mechanism of the water cycle change, contributions based on new observations or reconstruction data, state-of-the-art modeling approaches, and advanced analysis methodologies are highly welcome. Future emission scenarios, as in the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), are encouraged to be considered as a standard for impact and risk assessment studies.
Potential topics to be considered include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Historical or projected changes in precipitation, evapotranspiration, runoff/streamflow, soil moisture and terrestrial water storage, and their physical linkages to climate forcing;
- Changes in drought characteristics, e.g., occurrence frequency and intensity;
- Hydrological change and variability associated with extreme climate events, e.g., tropical cyclones, torrential rain and floods, and heat waves and cold surges;
- Rainfall changes associated with changing characteristics of monsoon and atmospheric circulation;
- Quantifying water cycle change associated with natural climate variability vs. anthropogenic climate change;
- Climate change impacts on surface water balance;
- Glacier retreat and snow cover melt under global warming;
- Changes in terrestrial vegetation and freshwater ecosystems;
- Assessments of climate change impacts on water supply and crop cultivation;
- Risk assessments on water-related hazards and disasters, and public health and socio-economic issues;
- Adaptation and mitigation strategies for water resource management under various projection scenarios;
- Advances in drought and flood monitoring and forecasting.
Dr. Bo Dong
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- regional water cycle
- surface water budget
- sensitivity of terrestrial water resources to climate change
- glacier and snow cover retreat
- precipitation
- drought and flood
- climate extremes
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