Climate Change Impact Assessment: Forecasting, Uncertainty Analysis, and Sustainable Development

A special issue of Forecasting (ISSN 2571-9394). This special issue belongs to the section "Weather and Forecasting".

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Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto, 1065 Military Trail, Toronto, ON M1C 1A4, Canada
Interests: water quality modeling; hydrodynamic modeling; machine learning; data mining; climate change; wastewater treatment; water reuse; water resource management; sustainability of freshwater resources; physical limnology
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Department of Civil Engineering, University of Siegen, 57068 Siegen, Germany
Interests: water resources management and forecasting; forecasting uncertainty; catchment hydrology; climate change impact analysis; floods; drought; Bayesian analysis
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The accelerated global warming due to anthropogenic activities is one of the greatest challenges worldwide. Climate change can result in prolonged drought, flooding, wildfires, tornados, wave heats, and altered hydrological cycles, imposing significant stress on both human society and the natural environment.

Climate-related extremes over the past few decades have become more frequent and intense, highlighting the need to develop methodologies to forecast extreme events and adaptation plans to mitigate their subsequent effects on the economy, environment, and human welfare.

Complex interactions among the climate, energy, hydrological cycle, agriculture, environmental and urban sustainability require interdisciplinary studies to guide management practices to adopt practical mitigation and restoration actions.

This Special Issue contributes to the state of the art of forecasting and modeling climate-change-related events and policy analysis to ensure the sustainability of urban and natural systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Forecasting, impact assessment, and uncertainty analysis of climate change-related events on atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and anthroposphere;
  • Mitigation options and sustainable development policy analysis to reduce climate change impacts;
  • Analysis of immediate and long-term climate change effects on human health and welfare.

Dr. Ali Saber
Prof. Dr. Paolo Reggiani
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • altered hydrological cycle
  • hydroclimate modeling
  • greenhouse gas emissions
  • hydro informatics
  • sustainability of urban and environmental systems
  • infrastructure resiliency
  • environmental policy assessment
  • food–water–energy–climate nexus

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Projected Future Flooding Pattern of Wabash River in Indiana and Fountain Creek in Colorado: An Assessment Utilizing Bias-Corrected CMIP6 Climate Data
by Swarupa Paudel, Neekita Joshi and Ajay Kalra
Forecasting 2023, 5(2), 405-423; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/forecast5020022 - 17 Apr 2023
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Climate change is considered one of the biggest challenges around the globe as it has been causing alterations in hydrological extremes. Climate change and variability have an impact on future streamflow conditions, water quality, and ecological balance, which are further aggravated by anthropogenic [...] Read more.
Climate change is considered one of the biggest challenges around the globe as it has been causing alterations in hydrological extremes. Climate change and variability have an impact on future streamflow conditions, water quality, and ecological balance, which are further aggravated by anthropogenic activities such as changes in land use. This study intends to provide insight into potential changes in future streamflow conditions leading to changes in flooding patterns. Flooding is an inevitable, frequently occurring natural event that affects the environment and the socio-economic structure of its surroundings. This study evaluates the flooding pattern and inundation mapping of two different rivers, Wabash River in Indiana and Fountain Creek in Colorado, using the observed gage data and different climate models. The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) streamflow data are considered for the future forecast of the flood. The cumulative distribution function transformation (CDF-t) method is used to correct bias in the CMIP6 streamflow data. The Generalized Extreme Value (L-Moment) method is used for the estimation of the frequency of flooding for 100-year and 500-year return periods. Civil GeoHECRAS is used for each flood event to map flood extent and examine flood patterns. The findings from this study show that there will be a rapid increase in flooding events even in small creeks soon in the upcoming years. This study seeks to assist floodplain managers in strategic planning to adopt state-of-the-art information and provide a sustainable strategy to regions with similar difficulties for floodplain management, to improve socioeconomic life, and to promote environmental sustainability. Full article
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Assessing the Implication of Climate Change to Forecast Future Flood Using CMIP6 Climate Projections and HEC-RAS Modeling
by Abhiru Aryal, Albira Acharya and Ajay Kalra
Forecasting 2022, 4(3), 582-603; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/forecast4030032 - 29 Jun 2022
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Climate change has caused uncertainty in the hydrological pattern including weather change, precipitation fluctuations, and extreme temperature, thus triggering unforeseen natural tragedies such as hurricanes, flash flooding, heatwave and more. Because of these unanticipated events occurring all around the globe, the study of [...] Read more.
Climate change has caused uncertainty in the hydrological pattern including weather change, precipitation fluctuations, and extreme temperature, thus triggering unforeseen natural tragedies such as hurricanes, flash flooding, heatwave and more. Because of these unanticipated events occurring all around the globe, the study of the influence of climate change on the alteration of flooding patterns has gained a lot of attention. This research study intends to provide an insight into how the future projected streamflow will affect the flooding-inundation extent by comparing the change in floodplain using both historical and future simulated scenarios. For the future projected data, the climate model Atmosphere/Ocean General Circulation Model (AOGCM) developed by Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) is used, which illustrates that the flood is increasing in considering climate models. Furthermore, a comparison of the existing flood inundation map by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) study with the map generated by future projected streamflow data presents the entire inundation area in flood maps, implying the expansion area compared to FEMA needs to be considered in making emergency response plans. The effect of flooding in the inundation area from historical to future flow values, presented mathematically by a calculation of inundation extent percentage, infers that the considered watershed of Rock River is a flood-prone area. The goal is to provide insights on the importance of using the forecasted data for flood analysis and to offer the necessary background needed to strategize an emergency response plan for flood management. Full article
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