Climate variability and change in the 21th Century

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: acclimatization; Aqua; Bayesian-model averaging; bias correction; bias correction methods; boreal region; California; Caucasian region; climate; climate change; climate change and Conakry; climate classification; climate indices; climate manipulation; climate model selection; climate-fire models; cluster analysis; CMIP5; CO2 fertilization effect; CORDEX; Côte d’Ivoire; downscaling; drought; droughts; ENSO; ERA5; excess heat factor; extreme wind speed; feedback; GCM; geoengineering; Google Earth Engine; GPP; Greece; heat wave; Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park; Hurst exponent; hydrologic regions; hydrological modeling; intercalibration; intersensor comparison; kriging interpolation; LAI; Mann–Kendall; Mediterranean climate; mega-fires; model uncertainty; MODIS; Mono River watershed; multiple climate models; multivariate; NDVI; objective classification; OLCI; optimal control; persistence; precipitation; precipitations; pseudo reality; rainfall; RCM; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; reflective solar bands; Regional Climate Model; regional climate modeling; Research and information: general; RSB; sassandra watershed; Sentinel-3A; SNO; SNPP; soil frost; spatial correlation; standardized precipitation index (SPI); surface roughness; temperature; Terra; terrestrial ecosystems; time series analysis; topography; trend analysis; upper Indus basin; VIIRS; Vu Gia-Thu Bon; warming; wavelet; weights; wind climate; wind damage risk management; wind multiplier
• ISBN: 3036501096; 9783036501093; 3036501088; 9783036501086
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-0109-3

- Water resources management should be assessed under climate change conditions, as historic data cannot replicate future climatic conditions. - Climate change impacts on water resources are bound to affect all water uses, i.e., irrigated agriculture, domestic and industrial water supply, hydropower generation, and environmental flow (of streams and rivers) and water level (of lakes). - Bottom-up approaches, i.e., the forcing of hydrologic simulation models with climate change models’ outputs, are the most common engineering practices and considered as climate-resilient water management approaches. - Hydrologic simulations forced by climate change scenarios derived from regional climate models (RCMs) can provide accurate assessments of the future water regime at basin scales. - Irrigated agriculture requires special attention as it is the principal water consumer and alterations of both precipitation and temperature patterns will directly affect agriculture yields and incomes. - Integrated water resources management (IWRM) requires multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, with climate change to be an emerging cornerstone in the IWRM concept.