TY  - GEN
AU  - Aymar Y.Bossa
AU  - Bernd Diekkrüger
AU  - Hong-Ming Liu
AU  - Eihab Fathelrahman
AU  - Charles B.Niwagaba
AU  - Md Sumon Shahriar
AU  - Zongli Li
AU  - James Pritchett
AU  - Jonathan E.Kenny
AU  - Mohammad Kamruzzaman
AU  - Robert Brooks
AU  - Mike D.Burch
AU  - Leszek Sobkowiak
AU  - Janel Hanrahan
AU  - Sergey Kravtsov
AU  - Mohammed Saif Al-Kalbani
AU  - Wen-Cheng Huang
AU  - Wen-Cheng Liu
AU  - Euloge K.Agbossou
AU  - Alistair Grinham
AU  - Patrick Willems
AU  - M.Mercedes Taboada-Castro
AU  - Timothy O'Higgins
AU  - Alec Zuo
AU  - John Boland
AU  - Mushtaque Ahmed
AU  - M.Teresa Taboada-Castro
AU  - Asma Abahussain
AU  - Mary Akurut
AU  - Rupak Aryal
AU  - Robert I.Daly
AU  - Jyun-Long Lee
AU  - Amalia Davies
AU  - Jun Xia
AU  - Jan Jacob Keizer
AU  - Martin F.Price
AU  - Simon Beecham
AU  - Morgan Bida
AU  - Leon van der Linden
AU  - Edwyna Harris
AU  - Joao Pedro Nunes
AU  - Ann Wheeler
AU  - Henning Bjornlund
AU  - Ricardo Arias
AU  - Todd Pagano
AU  - Stephen Davies
AU  - Paul Roebber
AU  - Lingling Zhao
AU  - M.Luz Rodríguez-Blanco
TI  - Water Resources in a Variable and Changing Climate
SN  - 9783038420835
PY  - 2015///
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
KW  - meteorological variables
KW  - water resources management
KW  - uncertainty
KW  - hydrological models
KW  - climate models
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Climate change will bring about significant changes to the capacity of, and the demand on, water resources. The resulting changes include increasing climate variability that is expected to affect hydrologic conditions. The effects of climate variability on various meteorological variables have been extensively observed in many regions around the world. Atmospheric circulation, topography, land use and other regional features modify global changes to produce unique patterns of change at the regional scale. As the future changes to these water resources cannot be measured in the present, hydrological models are critical in the planning required to adapt our water resource management strategies to future climate conditions. Such models include catchment runoff models, reservoir management models, flood prediction models, groundwater recharge and flow models, and crop water balance models. In water-scarce regions such as Australia, urban water systems are particularly vulnerable to rapid population growth and climate change. In the presence of climate change induced uncertainty, urban water systems need to be more resilient and multi-sourced. Decreasing volumetric rainfall trends have an effect on reservoir yield and operation practices. Severe intensity rainfall events can cause failure of drainage system capacity and subsequent urban flood inundation problems. Policy makers, end users and leading researchers need to work together to develop a consistent approach to interpreting the effects of climate variability and change on water resources. This Special Edition includes papers by international experts who have investigated climate change impacts on a variety of systems including irrigation and water markets, land use changes and vegetation growth, lake water levels and quality and sea level rises. These investigations have been conducted in many regions of the world including the USA, China, East Africa, Australia, Taiwan and the Sultanate of Oman
UR  - http://books.mdpi.com/pdfview/book/157
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/62527
ER  -