New Insights into Land–Atmosphere Interactions in Climate Dynamics
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 2438
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Interests: land–atmosphere interactions; weather forecasting; regional climate; hydrologic and water resource modeling
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Interests: climate change; drought; heat waves; extreme events; hydrologic and water resource modeling and simulation; climate dynamics; evapotranspiration; validation studies
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations is likely to enhance the interannual variability of climate change around the globe, particularly in the midlatitude areas, potentially causing more frequent extreme weather/climate events. Studies have identified that the extent of land–atmosphere interactions or coupling prevails at local, regional, and global scales. Regions with substantial strengths are termed hotspots due to the complex behavior of variables that govern those feedbacks and couplings. The regions identified mostly influence the near-surface temperature and energy regimes by disturbing and controlling the surface energy balance and water cycle, in which evapotranspiration is the key to the connection between the land and the atmosphere. Challenges still exist in understanding the spatial and temporal variations in land–atmosphere interactions due to limited observations in heat fluxes. Land surface conditions, including soil moisture, precipitation, temperature, land use, land cover, and snow cover, could considerably affect atmospheric processes in many parts of the globe. Both surface temperature and precipitation variations may be strongly influenced by the land–atmosphere interaction strength at various temporospatial scales.
In this regard, we invite the submission of original research articles and reviews on any aspect of land–atmosphere interactions in climate dynamics. The Special Issue aims to improve our understanding of the processes, interactions, feedback, coupling, and teleconnections at the land–atmosphere interface from the perspectives of reanalysis, observation, simulation, and future projection. We especially encourage studies using the most recent technology, such as reanalysis and state-of-the-art CMIP6 GCMs, to address such issues.
Prof. Dr. Xinmin Zeng
Dr. Irfan Ullah
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- land–atmosphere interactions
- land–air–sea interactions
- land–atmosphere coupling
- land surface
- soil moisture
- precipitation
- temperature
- land use/land cover–vegetation interactions
- CMIP6 projection
- extreme weather events such as drought, heat waves, and floods
- large-scale land–atmosphere teleconnections
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