Climatology
A section of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433).
Section Information
The climate is what you expect, the weather is what you get. The Climatology section of Atmosphere focuses on the long-term evolution of processes and phenomena within the atmosphere. The scope of the section encompasses past (paleo) and present-day climates, and their future projections. Included within the scope of the section is the impact of external climate drivers such as greenhouse gas forcing, solar, anthropogenic aerosol, and volcanic forcing; the interface with boundary forcing from land-use change, cryosphere, and oceans. Areas of interest include the tropics, midlatitudes, and the polar regions. Tropospheric phenomena including Hadley, Walker, and monsoon circulations, subtropical and midlatitude jets, and atmospheric blocking. The scope of the Climatology section also covers stratosphere and mesosphere processes and variability, including external influence from trace gas and GHG changes (e.g., stratospheric ozone), and phenomena such as sudden stratospheric warmings, the quasi-biennial oscillation, and the Brewer–Dobson circulation.
Keywords
- Global and regional climate
- Climate change and variability
- Paleoclimate
- Atmosphere dynamics
- Long-term observations
- Modeling
- Monsoons
- Hadley and Walker circulations
- Solar cycle
- Volcanic forcing
- Modes of variability (e.g., ENSO, NAO, MJO, PDO)
- Atmospheric blocking
- Teleconnections
- Stratosphere–troposphere coupling
- Sudden stratospheric warmings
- Quasi-biennial oscillation
- Geoengineering
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Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies for Sustainable Viticulture and Wine Industry (Deadline: 1 June 2022)
- Advances in Regional Climate Modelling (Deadline: 1 June 2022)
- Impacts of Climate Change on Transportation Infrastructure, Networks and Nodes (Deadline: 13 June 2022)
- High-Resolution Regional Climate Modelling/Dynamical Downscaling (Deadline: 16 June 2022)
- Multi-Scale Climate Change: Recent Trends, Current Progress and Future Directions (Deadline: 20 June 2022)
- Regional Climate Patterns and Extremes in the Mediterranean (Deadline: 30 June 2022)
- Climates of the Himalayas: Present, Past and Future (Deadline: 30 June 2022)
- Climate Change and Climate Variability, and Their Impact on Extreme Events (Deadline: 30 June 2022)
- Climate Changes, Weather and Climate Events over Arctic and Antarctica (Deadline: 1 July 2022)
- Understanding and Simulating Air–Sea Interactions under Extreme Weather and Climate Conditions (Deadline: 1 July 2022)
- Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Change (Deadline: 10 July 2022)
- Study of Oxygen Isotopes in Tree Rings (Deadline: 21 July 2022)
- Flash Drought Dynamics and Impacts (Deadline: 1 August 2022)
- Precipitation and Convection: From Observation to Simulation (Deadline: 5 August 2022)
- State-of-the-Art in Climate Trends Analysis (Deadline: 17 August 2022)
- State-of-Art in Urban Climate Projections (Deadline: 25 August 2022)
- Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment (Deadline: 25 August 2022)
- Statistical Modelling of Climate Extremes/Extreme Precipitation under Climate Change (Deadline: 30 August 2022)
- Drought in Arid and Semi-arid Regions (Deadline: 31 August 2022)
- Climate Extremes and Their Impacts (Deadline: 10 September 2022)
- Current Atmospheric Changes, Projections and Environmental Impacts in the Occidental Southern Polar Region (Deadline: 15 September 2022)
- New Approaches to Complex Climate Systems (Deadline: 17 September 2022)
- Enhancing the Output of Climate Models for the Assessment of Climate Change Impacts (Deadline: 30 September 2022)
- Impacts of Solar Activity on Climate Variability (Deadline: 30 September 2022)
- Paleoclimate Reconstruction (Deadline: 30 September 2022)
- Modeling of Ocean Waves: New Advances in Model Evaluation and Optimization (Deadline: 5 October 2022)
- Building Energy Codes and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation (Deadline: 7 October 2022)
- Advanced Climate Simulation and Observation (Deadline: 14 October 2022)
- Precipitation and Temperature Extremes: Monitoring, Dynamics, Prediction and Projection (Deadline: 19 October 2022)
- The Water Cycle and Climate Change (Deadline: 21 October 2022)
- Global Changes and Nitrogen Cycling in Grasslands (Deadline: 31 October 2022)
- Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) (Deadline: 31 October 2022)
- Hydroclimate in a Changing World: Recent Trends, Current Progress and Future Directions (Deadline: 31 October 2022)
- Urban Climate Mitigation Techniques and Technologies (Deadline: 31 October 2022)
- Climate Modeling and Dynamics (Deadline: 31 October 2022)
- Climate Extremes in the Pannonian Basin (2nd Volume) (Deadline: 4 November 2022)
- El Niño-Southern Oscillation Related Extreme Events (Deadline: 4 November 2022)
- Observation, Prediction, Simulation, and Future Projections of Sudden Stratospheric Warming and Its Impact (Deadline: 7 November 2022)
- Assessing Hydrological and Environmental Impacts of Climate Change (Deadline: 15 November 2022)
- Quaternary Westerlies and Monsoon Interaction in Asia (Deadline: 30 November 2022)
- The Changing Climate of the Arctic (Deadline: 30 November 2022)
- The Influence of Solar and Astronomical Factors on Earth (Deadline: 8 December 2022)
- Recent Topics of Climate Vulnerability: Statistics, Machine Learning, and Data Science, from Theory to Application (Deadline: 9 December 2022)
- Earth’s Climate Response to Astronomical Forcing (Deadline: 16 December 2022)
- Heat Waves: Perspectives from Observations, Reanalysis and Modeling (Deadline: 20 December 2022)
- The Hunga Tonga 2022 Eruption and Its Impact on the Atmosphere, Climate, and the Environment (Deadline: 31 December 2022)
- Climate Change on Ocean Dynamics (Deadline: 31 January 2023)
- Climate and Weather Extremes and Their Impacts on Water Resources and Agriculture in Asia (Deadline: 15 June 2023)
