Analysis of climate change impacts on water resources: A review

There is consensus that climate change will cause the sea level to raise, increased frequency of extreme climatic events including intense storms, heavy rainfall events and droughts. Climate change is likely to affect nearly every aspect of human well-being, from agricultural productivity and energy use to flood control, municipal and industrial water supply to wildlife management, since the region is characterized by highly spatial and temporally variable rainfall and scarce water resources. It has theoretical and realistic meanings to study the climate change s impacts on hydrology and water resources, so as to understand and solve some problems in hydrology and water resources, such as plan management, operation management, environmental protection, ecological balance and so on. This paper reviews the relationship between climate change and water resources, water circulating response of climate change. And then summarizes some study methods of analyzing the impacts of climate change on hydrology and water resources.

There is consensus that climate change will cause the sea level to raise, increased frequency of extreme climatic events including intense storms, heavy rainfall events and droughts. Climate change is likely to affect nearly every aspect of human well-being, from agricultural productivity and energy use to flood control, municipal and industrial water supply to wildlife management, since the region is characterized by highly spatial and temporally variable rainfall and scarce water resources. It has theoretical and realistic meanings to study the climate change s impacts on hydrology and water resources, so as to understand and solve some problems in hydrology and water resources, such as plan management, operation management, environmental protection, ecological balance and so on. This paper reviews the relationship between climate change and water resources, water circulating response of climate change. And then summarizes some study methods of analyzing the impacts of climate change on hydrology and water resources.