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Linking Climate-Change Impacts on Hydrological Processes and Water Quality to Local Watersheds

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Abstract

The papers collected in this Special Issue tackle multiple aspects on how hydrological processes and water quality at local watersheds could be affected by climate change through hydrological modeling, statistical analysis, and field measurement. In addition, climate-change implications and adaptions based on research findings are discussed and are highly beneficial to local water resources managers and stakeholders. In addition, the studies in this collection provide a variety of research methods and approaches to tackle challenging questions faced by local watersheds under various climate change scenarios. Many of the studies emphasized the advantages of geospatial engineering and technology, i.e., geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, global navigation satellite system (GNSS) application in solving water resources management issues that occurred in consequence of climate change. As water resources management decision support is essentially of spatio-temporal nature, GIS and GNSS helps in localized analyses and remote sensing data helps analyzing temporal changing scenario. STELLA, AnnAGNPS, SWAT, GRACE, and especially, GCM models used in the research papers in this special issue for water resources management decision support are all of spatio-temporal analytics models. As seen with wide-range of articles published in the Special Issue, climate-centric researchers engaged in the said topics will be highly benefitted. Readers of the Special Issue articles will get insight on geospatial engineering and technology and other advanced models usage in their future research on climate change affected hydrologic DSS development. Today, most climate change studies focus on large regional and global scales or using climate change scenarios that have low flexibility with inaccurate data for local scale watersheds. The topics in this Special Issue provide a new research direction in dealing with local watersheds under changing climate and will receive a global interest for years to come. As the research articles in the Special Issue encompass various spatially (geographically) differentiated watersheds, covers developed, developing, and even poor countries with different watershed management conditions available to them due to funding availability, the research results, especially the decision supports developed through the studies, will be very beneficial in furthering watershed hydrologic research under changing climate. Studies in the Special Issue included heterogeneous environmental features, such as land use, soils, topography, climate/weather pattern, and above all hydrological scenarios, can help future studies that glean research methods from them.

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Citation

Ouyang, Ying; Panda, Sudhanshu Sekhar; Feng, Gary. 2022. Linking Climate-Change Impacts on Hydrological Processes and Water Quality to Local Watersheds. Climate. 10(7): 96-. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli10070096.
Citations
https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/64551