| Session Details | |
| Section | HS - Hydrological Sciences |
| Session Title | Hydrology in a Changing World: Challenges in Modeling |
| Main Convener | Dr. Shailesh Singh (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. C. T. Dhanya (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India) Dr. Rajib Maity (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India) Dr. Markus Pahlow (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) Dr. Mingna Wang (China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, China) |
| Session Description | Hydrologic processes, both at local and global scale, have undergone dramatic changes, majorly due to the scrupulous variations in climate, population growth and related land use land cover changes. Climate and land use around the world is changing rapidly than expected. This creates stress on water availability. Increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations lead to global warming and an intensification of the water cycle. In addition, increase in population and infrastructure developments is creating local effects due to land cover and land use changes. Hence, there is need for decision makers to better understand the science, impacts, and consequences of changing climate and land use on hydrology. Scientific community has incorporated these factors of non-stationarity in many hydrological modeling exercises, especially during the past decade. Understanding the changing behavior of hydrological processes, related uncertainties and their evolution is important in modeling process. In this special edition, we propose to address the following areas (but not limited to): i. Recent advances in the hydrological modeling to incorporate changing climate, land use land cover changes and related non-stationarities. ii. Improvements in the hydrological model performance and related research iii. Advancements in the parameter estimation/ uncertainty quantification in hydrological modeling iv. Predictability of hydrological systems v. Modeling techniques in changing conditions vi. Addressing non-stationarity in hydrological modeling exercises. vii. Case studies of local to regional scale about impact of changing climate and land use on Hydrology |