Extreme Hydrological Events and Water Resources Management under Climate Change
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 March 2024) | Viewed by 1462
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrology; floods; water resources management; hydropower operation; hydrological modelling; snow; cold climate engineering
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: experimental, field, and numerical works related to sediment and flow hydraulics; hydropower; river engineering; hydraulic structures; intelligent systems; soft computing models; remote sensing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last decades, we have experienced severe and disastrous consequences of opposite hydrological extremes: floods and landslides that have caused the loss of many lives, enormous damage to properties and infrastructure, and huge personal and societal costs, as well as droughts that have caused extensive damage to crops and endangered food production and the safety of water supply. How can these events be placed in a historical context, how are they related to already-experienced changes in the climate, and what can we expect within climate change scenarios in the coming decades? Do we have the tools and methods to understand the cause, predict the consequences, and, importantly, communicate these? How have we traditionally mitigated such consequences and how can new technologies be applied to mitigate and reduce the effects of extreme hydrological events in the future? Over the decades, population size and urbanization have increased significantly, and these consequences have become more severe. Have the extremes become more extreme or is it only the consequences due to other reasons that have done so? These are the core topics and questions this Special Issue will address:
- Hydrological extremes from a historical and future perspective;
- Tools and methods to predict and communicate the causes and consequences of hydrological extremes;
- How prepared are we for the future, what mitigation measures are in place and are they sufficient for the future, and what new technologies can be applied?
- How do urbanization and population growth influence the consequences of hydrological extremes?
Prof. Dr. Oddbjørn Bruland
Dr. Behnam Balouchi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- extreme floods
- extreme droughts
- landslides
- climate adaptation
- climate mitigation
- hydraulic modelling
- hydrological modelling
