The twenty-first century is witnessing an explosion in global population, environmental
changes, agricultural land disintegration, hunger, and geopolitical instabilities. It is difficult to …

Accurately predicting precipitation trends is vital in the economic development of a country.
This research investigated precipitation variability across 15 stations in the Swat River basin …

Under the background of global climate change and local anthropogenic stresses, many
regions of the world have suffered from frequent droughts and floods in recent decades …

China's water policies in the past decades have relied heavily on the construction of
massive water conservancy projects in the form of dams and reservoirs, water transfer …

In this research, temporal trends of reference evapotranspiration (ET0) values were
investigated in arid regions of Iran. For this purpose, meteorological observations collected …

In this study a rigorous evaluation and comparison of the difference in water balance
simulations resulted from using different downscaling techniques, GCMs and hydrological …

Afforestation may alter soil microbial community structure and function, and further affect soil
carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) dynamics. Here we investigated soil microbial carbon and …

Changes in lake hydrological regimes and the associated impacts on water supplies and
ecosystems are internationally recognized issues. During the past decade, the persistent …

Quantitative evaluation of the effect of climate variability and human activities on runoff is of
great importance for water resources planning and management in terms of maintaining the …

Variability and availability of water resources under changing environment in a regional
scale have been hot topics in recent years, due to the vulnerability of water resources …