| Session Details | |
| Section | HS - Hydrological Sciences |
| Session Title | Impacts of Climate Change on Floods, Droughts, and Water Availability in Asian Countries |
| Main Convener | Prof. Yongqin David Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Jianfeng Li (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR) Prof. Thian Yew Gan (Research Ambassador, Canada) Prof. Qiang Zhang (Beijing Normal University, China) |
| Session Description | Water is particularly sensitive and vulnerable to climate change because hydrologic cycle is fundamentally controlled by regional and global climate. As climate becomes warmer and more extreme, the rising temperature and more directly the changing precipitation will have significant impacts on water hazards (floods and droughts) and water availability which are the key components of water security. Asian countries are not only highly diversified culturally, socially and economically, but also in terms of climatic and hydrological characteristics, and therefore will face different challenges in regional water security under climate change and need to develop and implement different adaptation strategies and measures. This session invites presentations on the following and other related research topics: 1. Use and downscaling of GCM outputs to assess and project hydrologic impacts of climate change 2. Coupling of regional climatic and hydrologic models and uncertainty analysis for climate change impact assessment 3. Climate change impacts on extreme storms for flood prevention and management 4. Responses of floods, droughts and water availability to more extreme climate 5. Changes in the co-occurrence of floods and droughts under more extreme precipitation 6. Statistics characteristics of changes in floods, droughts and water availability from the past to the future 7. Socioeconomic impacts of changes in floods, droughts and water availability under the changing climate 8. Adaptation strategies and measures for changes in future water hazards and water availability |