Multi-Scale Climate Simulations

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2024 | Viewed by 1184

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Department of Atmospheric Science, School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan, China
Interests: climate change in drylands; causes and mechanisms; model evaluation; error analysis; model improvement; future climate projections

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Dear Colleagues,

Global warming has become one of the most prominent features of modern long-term climate change, and it is generally recognized that the dominant factor is external forcing. The influence of interdecadal or interannual changes, such as internal variability, leads to the complex characteristics of multi-scale interactions in the climate system. With increasing computer technology and understanding of climate change, climate models have been developed and updated for generations. Although models have improved their simulation of multi-scale changes in the climate system, there are still many errors.

The aim of this Special Issue is to go deeply into the study of multi-scale climate simulations. Topics of interest for the Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

1) Multi-scale change characteristics of climate system;

2) Causes and mechanisms of multi-scale climate change;

3) Model performance in multi-scale climate change, including error and its source analyzing, and model improvement;

4) The detection and attribution of multi-scale climate change;

5) Future projections.

Knowledge of the above is of great scientific and societal importance to the understanding of climate change and development of climate models.

Dr. Yun Wei
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • multi-scale climate change 
  • causes and mechanisms 
  • model comparison and evaluation
  • error and its source analysis
  • model improvement
  • detection and attribution 
  • future projections

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The Influence of Vegetation on Climate Elements in Northwestern China
by Bicheng Huang, Yu Huang, Dan Wu, Xinyue Bao, Yongping Wu, Guolin Feng and Li Li
Atmosphere 2024, 15(3), 325; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15030325 - 5 Mar 2024
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Vegetation plays a crucial role in maintaining the balance between nature, water and soil resources. However, understanding its impact mechanisms in arid and semi-arid areas remains limited. This study aims to analyze the spatial–temporal characteristics of the vegetation leaf area index (LAI) and [...] Read more.
Vegetation plays a crucial role in maintaining the balance between nature, water and soil resources. However, understanding its impact mechanisms in arid and semi-arid areas remains limited. This study aims to analyze the spatial–temporal characteristics of the vegetation leaf area index (LAI) and climate elements in typical regions of northwest China and the correlations between LAI and climate elements; it also aims to explore the influence of regional vegetation growth on climate change. The results reveal significant correlations between LAI and various climate elements. Specifically, within the same region, surface temperature, precipitation, vegetation transpiration, and total evaporation show positive correlations with the LAI, whereas surface albedo shows a negative correlation. Vegetation may affect climate through both heat and water exchange between the land and atmosphere. Increased vegetation leads to the enhanced absorption of solar radiation by the land surface, elevating surface temperature. Increased levels of vegetation also increase vegetation transpiration and total evaporation, increasing the water vapor content in the atmosphere and thus leading to increased surface precipitation. Therefore, vegetation distribution plays a role in climate change, and ecological restoration projects in the northwest region hold significant potential for addressing ecological challenges in its arid and semi-arid areas. Full article
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