**Meet the editor**

Dr. Ata Amini is an Associate Professor of water resource engineering at the Kurdistan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Sanandaj, Iran. He completed his doctorate at the University Putra Malaysia in 2009. In recent years, he has been in charge of many research projects and supervised many masters and PhD students in the field

of water engineering and environment aspects. He is also the author of five books and three book chapters. Dr. Ata Amini has devoted his academic career to study integrated water resource management, river engineering, sediment, scouring and watershed management. He has more than 20 years of teaching experience and has published many academic papers and final research reports.

Contents

**Preface VII**

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**Section 1 Modeling and Detecting 1**

**Global Warming 3**

**Climate Models 43** Firdos Khan and Jürgen Pilz

**Section 2 Impacts and Adaption 63**

and Ben Sonneveld

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Lake Urmia - A Witness to the**

Chapter 2 **Assessing the Expected Impact of Climate Change on Nitrate Load in a Small Atlantic Agro-Forested Catchment 11** María Luz Rodríguez-Blanco, María Mercedes Taboada-Castro,

Chapter 3 **Tools and Methods for Supporting Regional Decision-Making**

Ricardo Arias and María Teresa Taboada-Castro

Jyri Hanski, Jaana Keränen and Riitta Molarius

Chapter 4 **Statistical Methodology for Evaluating Process-Based**

Chapter 5 **The Impact of Climate Change on Water Availability and Recharge of Aquifers in the Jordan River Basin 65**

Fayez Abdulla, Wim van Veen, Hani Abu Qdais, Lia van Wesenbeeck

**in Relation to Climate Risks 25**

**Simultaneous Effects of Human Activities, Climate Change, and**
