Extreme Hydrological Processes and Impacts in Mountainous Regions

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

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Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Interests: hydroclimate change and its associated disaster effects; orographic precipitation; regional climate modeling; snow avalance; flood and drought; landslide
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A lot of proxy evidence from the water cycle indicates that the hydroclimate is changing under global warming and is experiencing increasing extremes and enhanced anomalies. All these changes heavily impact the water cycle and have extensive effects on societies and ecosystems. In this Special Issue, the related research will focus on global or regional extreme hydrological processes and their associated hazard effects, with a particular focus on high-altitude regions where the climate and water cycle are sensitive to global warming. Potential topics will include, but are not be limited to, (1) spatial or temporal changes in precipitation, evapotranspiration, runoff, snow or glacier, etc.; (2) climate or hydro model development for hydroclimate change studies in high-altitude regions; (3) characteristics of extreme hydrological events and processes; (4) the impacts of hydroclimate changes on secondary disasters including drought, flood, snow avalanche, landslide and debris flow, etc.

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Keywords

  • hydroclimate variations and trends
  • extreme hydrological event
  • hazard effect
  • flood and drought
  • high-altitude mountains

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Mountain Hydrology Based on the Water Balance of the Tropical Basin of the Topo River (Tungurahua–Ecuador)
by Erick García-Andrade, Diego E. Mora, Daniel E. Mendoza and Sebastián Páez-Bimos
Water 2024, 16(22), 3227; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16223227 - 9 Nov 2024
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The Topo River basin, located in the tropical region of Ecuador, is considered a little-known and well-preserved basin, with limited access conditions and scarce data that hinder its hydrological understanding. However, this gap can be addressed through this study, which evaluates morphometric and [...] Read more.
The Topo River basin, located in the tropical region of Ecuador, is considered a little-known and well-preserved basin, with limited access conditions and scarce data that hinder its hydrological understanding. However, this gap can be addressed through this study, which evaluates morphometric and hydrometeorological factors, relating them to water storage in the Topo River basin and comparing these results with other watersheds. The aim is to identify the morphometric and hydrometeorological factors that control the variability in water storage. Firstly, a morphometric characterization was conducted. Then, a hydrometeorological characterization was carried out based on climatic data from a single station with less than two years of data, along with the calculation of the water balance. Finally, water storage in the Topo basin was compared with the main morphometric and hydrometeorological characteristics of other basins. The results showed that the Topo River basin stores 9.1 mm annually (0.20% of its precipitation), and this storage is the result of its high runoff coefficient. It was concluded that basins with lower precipitation, higher evapotranspiration ranges, larger areas, gentler slopes, smaller altitude ranges, longer rivers, and basins that are narrow and oval-shaped may have higher water storage capacity. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Extreme Hydrological Processes and Impacts in Mountainous Regions)
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