JWCC

Special Issue: Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources

The prediction of water circulation and water resources evolution trends in the future climate change scenario is the most important content in the study of the impact of climate change on hydrological resources. The response research of water resources in the context of future climate change follows the "Future Climate Scenario Setting-Hydrological Simulation-Impact Study". Despite the development in recent decades, the research methods of the impact of climate change on hydrology and water resources have been constantly improved and improved. For example, from simply transplanting historical data or incremental scenarios to GCM simulation considering various greenhouse gas emission scenarios, and various downscaling methods for GCM degradation; from a simple empirical statistical model to distributed hydrological model simulation technology considering atmosphere-vegetation-soil exchange. However, the mechanism of atmospheric circulation and hydrological cycle as well as the internal relationship between them have not been fully understood so far. Therefore, the output results of the hydrological climate coupling model are still uncertain. The problems are mainly reflected in the following aspects: the uncertainty of atmospheric general circulation models prediction results; the uncertainty of hydrological model simulation technology; the coupling response between GCM and hydrological model is unidirectional. The theme of this special issue is “Impact and Prediction of Climate Change on Regional Hydrological Environment”, focusing on the impact of climate change on regional hydrological resources in the future, further improving the simulation accuracy, and improving the research system on the impact of climate change on water resources. The theme is not limited to the following points:

• Impact and prediction of water resources;

• GCM combined with RCM and SDSM;

• Atmospheric general circulation models with higher spatial and temporal resolution;

• The improvement of the downscaling method;

• Simulation accuracy of the distributed watershed hydrological model;

• The two-way coupling between land surface hydrological model and climate model;

• Research on extreme hydrological events, water quality, and water environment；

• The influence of extreme climate on flood and waterlogging；

• The impact of extreme climate on drought in the basin；

• Application of SWAT model in regional hydrology.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline                           20- Jun.- 2021

Date for informing author                            20-Jul.- 2021

Revised manuscripts resubmit deadline                20-Aug- 2021

Expected publication        Dec.-2021 (accepted papers published online immediately ahead of issue publication)