Dear Colleagues,

Over the last two decades, there has been a huge increase in hydrological model applications with a focus on global changes, particularly on water resources and the impact on regional hydrological processes, among which the evaluation of the climate change impact has been a major area. Many research findings have improved our understanding of global change with sound evidence.

As we move to a post-COP21 world with a consensus of a climate emergency, the need for more insight into understanding the hydrological processes and their interactions with a changing global environment has never been so intense. We also have to face many new modelling paradigms, as applications of AI and machine learning, as well as the challenges of utilizations of existing large datasets, have gradually gained momentum.

We are aware that many researchers have been working hard in this field and have already made remarkable progress. Thus, we are organizing this Special Issue and cordially invite researchers and practitioners in the wider modelling community to submit research papers related (but not limited) to the following aspects:

1. Progress in modelling hydrological processes in a changing environment
2. New model structure and design to address the social dimensions and interactions when building societal resilience to the changing environment
3. Utilization and mining of large environment datasets to support environment change prediction and planning using data-centric techniques
4. Identification and prediction of abrupt environment changes, e.g., from floods to droughts.
5. The role of hydrological modelling in mitigating and building resilience to the hazards caused by environmental change
6. Hydrological prediction and hydrological uncertainty analysis based on probabilistic perspectives.

We are confident that with your contribution, we will be able to publish a valuable set of works that can address the knowledge gaps and the skill sets needed, and, in the meantime, help advance our understanding of these challenges. We are aware of the current challenging situation. Should you need extra support or advice on manuscript preparation, please get in touch.

Dr. Yunqing Xuan
Dr. Zhiyong Liu
Prof. Dr. Hongyan Li
Guest Editors

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• hydrological modelling
• global environment change
• human interactions
• abrupt change
• prediction
• resilience and mitigation