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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.

meteorological variables --- water resources management --- uncertainty --- hydrological models --- climate models

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This is the first systematic account of the Joint Arctic Weather Stations (JAWS), a collaborative science program between Canada and the United States that created a distinctive state presence in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago from 1946-1972. These five meteorological stations, constructed at Eureka, Resolute, Isachsen, Mould Bay, and Alert, became remote hubs for science and sovereignty, revealing the possibilities and limits of modernity in the High Arctic. Drawing on extensive archival evidence, unpublished personal memoirs, and interviews with former JAWS personnel, this book systematically analyzes the diplomatic, scientific, social, environmental, and civil-military dimensions of this binational program. From the corridors of power in Washington and Ottawa to everyday life at the small outposts, The Joint Arctic Weather Stations explores delicate statecraft, changing scientific practices, as well as the distinctive station cultures that emerged as humans coped with isolation in polar environments.

Meteorological stations --- Meteorological observatories --- Meteorology --- Observatories, Meteorological --- Stations, Meteorological --- Weather stations --- Geophysical observatories --- History --- Observatories --- International law. --- Meteorological stations. --- Science and state. --- Science --- Science policy --- State and science --- State, The --- Law of nations --- Nations, Law of --- Public international law --- Law --- Government policy --- Canada-US relations. --- anthropology of science. --- arctic history. --- arctic logistics. --- circumpolar studies. --- cold war. --- cultures of isolation. --- diplomacy. --- environmental history. --- historical geography. --- history of science. --- living in isolation. --- meteorological science. --- meteorology. --- polar geography. --- polar history. --- polar logistics. --- science diplomacy. --- scientists. --- social history. --- sovereignty. --- weather studies.

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Meteorological services --- Services météorologiques --- Periodicals --- Périodiques --- Meteorological services. --- Earth Sciences --- Environmental Sciences --- Physics --- Extraterrestrial Geology --- Geochemistry --- Meteorology --- Atmospheric Science --- Natural Disasters & Industrial Accidents --- General and Others --- meteorology --- meteorological applications --- climatology --- climate models --- weather hazards --- weather forecasting --- Klimaat. --- Meteorologie. --- Toepassingen. --- Weather --- Forecasting --- Weather bureaus --- Weather services

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Today, tropical cyclones continue to bring destruction, as well as disruption, to societies that are exposed to their threat. This book represents a compilation of recent cutting-edge research on tropical cyclones and their impacts from researchers at many institutions around the world. This book contains new looks at tropical cyclone dynamics, the use of satellite-based remote sensing in the detection and climatology of tropical cyclones, and the modeling and prediction of tropical cyclones as well as their associated impacts. This book would make a nice addition to any course on tropical meteorology highlighting topics of interest in recent research on this topic.

Remote sensing --- Atmospheric effects. --- Atmospheric effects on remote sensing --- Meteorological optics --- Physical Sciences --- Engineering and Technology --- Earth and Planetary Sciences --- Remote Sensing --- Atmospheric Sciences

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Research across the whole spectrum of geomorphological hazards, namely endogenous and exogenous hazards, as well as those related to climate change and human activity.

Hazardous geographic environments --- Natural disasters --- Risk assessment --- Environments, Hazardous geographic --- Disasters --- Human ecology --- geophysical/geological hazards --- climatological and climate-change-related hazards --- meteorological hazards --- hydrological hazards --- mass-movement hazards --- anthropogenic and technological hazards --- Hazardous geographic environments. --- Natural disasters. --- Natural calamities