Research on the Watershed Scale Water Storage and Drought Response under Environmental Change
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 5102
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Interests: hillslope hydrology; groundwater recharge; unsaturated soil; isotopes hydrology
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Interests: groundwater resources investigstion; hydrogeology; landslide hazard evaluation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, climate change and land-use change have widely been discussed as key factors in the hydrological impact of environmental change. Climate change has altered the spatiotemporal distribution of precipitation and evapotranspiration by intensifying the water cycle from the global to catchment scale. Land-use change is mainly the result of human activities which have altered interception loss, infiltration, and flow paths, affecting the surface runoff process. Hydrometeorological behaviors change the relationship among land cover, evapotranspiration, effective infiltration, etc. showing the complexity of the hydrologic impact of environmental changes. Thus, it is critical to explore the environmental impact on hydrologic processes, especially for water resource management. Because of the impact of climate change, water resources are gradually being reduced, and the frequency of drought events is increasing. This indicates that the global rainfall pattern has changed dramatically. However, drought events not only cause environmental changes but also have serious impacts on social economies and agricultural development. The main goal of this Special Issue is to bring together studies on watershed-scale water storage and drought response under environmental change in different regions of the world.
Dr. Hsin-Fu Yeh
Dr. Chien-Chung Ke
Dr. Jhe-Wei Lee
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental change
- climate change, hydrological processes
- water resources
- anthropogenic impacts
- drought
- groundwater storage
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