Climate Modeling and Impacts of Climate Change on Hydrological Cycle
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 59
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate models are essential tools for predicting climate change and its impacts on Earth's hydrological processes and systems. They play a crucial role in supporting sustainable water resource management, disaster prevention and mitigation, and achieving carbon neutrality goals under the influence of climate change. Therefore, a deeper understanding of and the use of climate models, in conjunction with hydrological models and other tools, can better address the challenges posed by climate change and protect Earth's water resources and ecological environment.
Research on the impacts of climate change on hydrological processes holds significant strategic value. It includes deepening the understanding of climate–water cycle interactions and improving the ability to predict extreme events. It supports flood and drought prevention, optimal water resource allocation, and water engineering planning to ensure socio-economic resilience. Additionally, it addresses the intensification of hydrological disasters and ensures ecological safety and sustainable development.
This Special Issue “Climate Modeling and Impacts of Climate Change on Hydrological Cycle” focuses on climate model simulation technology and the mechanisms by which climate change drives the hydrological cycle system. This Special Issue invites the submission of original research and review papers, such as the current development status of global and regional climate models (e.g., CMIP5/CMIP6) and the sources of uncertainty in simulating key climate elements like precipitation and temperature. It aims to construct a multi-scale (global–basin–regional) coupled climate–hydrological prediction framework. Based on different greenhouse gas emission scenarios (RCPs), it quantitatively analyzes the impact of climate change on runoff, evaporation, soil moisture, and extreme hydrological events (e.g., floods, droughts), revealing the spatiotemporal heterogeneity characteristics of hydrological responses. The research also investigates the mechanisms of hydrological process changes in sensitive regions, such as glacier melting in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and precipitation variability in monsoon areas. By coupling land surface hydrological models with climate models, it assesses the impact of climate change on the renewability of basin water resources and establishes an adaptive evaluation index system. Furthermore, it encourages exploring how climate models can be used to formulate adaptive strategies to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on water resources.
This Special Issue aims to provide valuable insights to policymakers and the scientific community by combining climate model predictions with water resource management practices, supporting the implementation of sustainable water resource management and climate adaptation strategies.
Prof. Dr. Yi Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate models
- hydrological cycle
- water resource management
- extreme hydrological events
- ecohydrological response
- greenhouse gas emission scenarios (RCPs)
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