Remote Sensing of Hydrological Extremes: Current Progress and Future Prospect
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 10356
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrological extreme analysis under environmental changes; flood simulation and prediction
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Interests: catchment hydrology; hydrological modelling; environmental change impacts; uncertainty analysis
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Dear Colleagues,
Hydrological extremes attract worldwide attention. Extreme hydrological events, especially floods and droughts, are among the costliest natural disasters, causing many environmental, economic, and social problems. However, the identification, monitoring, quantification, and forecasting of hydrological extremes are quite difficult tasks, and their magnitude, timing, and variations are sensitive to ongoing climate change and human activities. Therefore, many challenges exist to understand, monitor, and predict hydrological extremes under environmental changes. For instance, investigating the possible impacts of climate change on hydrological extremes, as well as their key driving factors (e.g., rainfall, soil moisture, and evapotranspiration) globally and regionally, is critical to manage the possible corresponding risks. Furthermore, with the rapid development of remote sensing technology, more and more remote sensing-based datasets are applied to monitor, simulate, and forecast extreme hydrological events. In addition, datasets are inherently uncertain, and this will result in uncertainties in predicted extreme hydrological events which need to be taken into account in risk assessment and management of extreme events.
This Special Issue will focus on newly developed methods and datasets in remote sensing, and their applications in the analysis of hydrological extremes. The aim of this Special Issue is to collect a wide spectrum of papers which illustrate the current progress and future prospects on remote sensing of hydrological extremes.
We welcome novel research and reviews related to the topic “remote sensing of hydrological extremes”, such as possible impacts of climate change on hydrological extremes, uncertainty of datasets, models, and methods to simulate or predict hydrological extremes, and identification of specific hydrological extremes (e.g., flash droughts and floods).
Specific topics include, but are not limited to:
- Impacts of climate change and/ or human activities on hydrological extremes;
- Identification and forecasting of flash droughts or floods;
- Non-stationarity and uncertainty of hydrological extremes and processes related to hydrological extremes;
- Data assimilation and data merging methods for simulation of hydrological extremes with remote sensing datasets;
- Calibration of hydrological models for high and low flows using remote sensing datasets.
Prof. Dr. Yue-Ping Xu
Dr. Martijn J. Booij
Dr. Qian Zhu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- hydrological extremes
- drought
- flood
- climate change
- human activities
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