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Watershed Hydrology and Management under Changing Climate

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2024 | Viewed by 420

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Hongbo Zhang

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Guest Editor
1. School of Water and Environment, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710054, China
2. Key Laboratory of Eco-Hydrology and Water Security in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions of the Ministry of Water Resources, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710054, China
3. Key Laboratory of Subsurface Hydrology and Ecological Effect in Arid Region of Ministry of Education, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710054, China
Interests: watershed hydrology; water resources allocation; drought assessment; flood simulation; climate change; land-use and land-cover change; reservior regulation

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last 20 years, global climate change and the underlying surface changes have worsened. The basin's hydrological process has shown some concerning traits, such as non-stationarity, spatial heterogeneity, and interactive complexity, especially when human activities are taken into account. These characteristics have led to responsive changes in the ecohydrological process, the interaction process of surface water and groundwater, the spatiotemporal evolution process of drought and flood events, and the harmony between humans and water in the basin. This will surely present major challenges to water-related hazard prevention, hydrological modeling and forecasting, and the sustainable management of water resources under changing climate. To solve these problems and encourage both the harmony between humans and water and the high-quanlity growth of watersheds, scientists need to learn more about the hydrological changes that are happening in watersheds as a result of climate change and come up with better adaptive ways to deal with and manage them.

This Special Issue seeks contributions involving innovative methodologies or relevant case studies regarding topics, including, but not limited to, the following:

  1. Comprehensive responses of watershed hydrological processes to climate change and underlying surface changes;
  2. Novel methodology for watershed hydrological modeling and forecasting;
  3. New insights for watershed eco-hydrological processes and environmental flow management;
  4. Efficient strategies for watershed drought and flood risk management;
  5. Watershed socio-hydrology and new approaches for improving harmony between humans and water;
  6. Adaptive watershed water resources management and digital watershed system construction.

Prof. Dr. Hongbo Zhang
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • cliamte change
  • hydrology modeling and forecasting
  • hydrological connectivity
  • groundwater–surface water interaction
  • ecohydrology
  • socio-hydrology
  • digital watershed
  • environmental flow
  • drought and flood risk management
  • integrated water resources management

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Impact of Human Development on the Phenomenon of Surface Runoff Crossing Adjacent Watershed Boundaries
by WeiCheng Lo, Chang-Mien Wang, Chih-Tsung Huang and Meng-Hsuan Wu
Water 2024, 16(13), 1831; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16131831 - 27 Jun 2024
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The concept of watersheds, also called catchments, is fundamental to both flood mitigation and water resource management, as it greatly aids in the calculation of overland flow attributes. Watershed boundaries are typically determined by elevation, as water adheres to the geological characteristics of [...] Read more.
The concept of watersheds, also called catchments, is fundamental to both flood mitigation and water resource management, as it greatly aids in the calculation of overland flow attributes. Watershed boundaries are typically determined by elevation, as water adheres to the geological characteristics of watersheds under natural circumstances and does not cross watershed boundaries. However, advances in human development have caused elevation and land usage changes, and boundaries between adjacent watersheds in downstream areas with flat terrain have become unclear and unstable. This study chose the Kaoping River watershed and Donggang River watershed as the study area, to investigate the cross-watershed runoff phenomenon under different return period rainfall. Based on land use surveys of the study area, the area in proximity to the boundary between the two watersheds was highly developed, with land primarily used for agriculture, buildings, and transportation. As the study area was highly developed, cross-watershed runoff was observed, even in the 2-year return period rainfall simulation case. The size and depth of the areas where cross-watershed runoff occurred became stable in the simulation cases, with return periods of 25 years or greater due to the surrounding high-elevation terrain obstructing further surface runoff development. Thus, when planning for flood mitigation, cross-watershed runoff from adjacent watersheds must also be considered, in addition to normal surface runoff. Full article
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