Agrometeorology
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Biometeorology and Bioclimatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 August 2022) | Viewed by 32240
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Technology Products and Services, NEURPUBLIC S.A., 18545 Piraeus, Greece
Interests: integrated water resources management; drought management; contingency planning; drought vulnerability; desertification vulnerability; composite index; water and land degradation
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Interests: integrated water resources management; non-conventional water resources; water treatment; wastewater treatment; composite index; water scarcity; water stress; resilience; vulnerability
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Interests: forest micrometeorology; agrometeorology; aridity; drought; crop water requirements
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Weather and climate variabilities impact plants’ and animals’ physiological processes. Agrometeorology is the science that studies the physical connections and interactions between weather/climate and agriculture, including croplands, forests, and livestock. Those processes and impacts are critical for the conservation and protection of natural ecosystems and also to sustain the productivity of agricultural systems. The influence of temperature, humidity, radiation, wind, and other related meteorological and biometeorological parameters in small temporal and spatial scales is within the scope of this Special Issue. Evapotranspiration (ET) and other mass and energy fluxes are also the main parameters in agrometeorology. In particular, the estimation of ET is essential for determining precise agricultural water requirements, irrigation scheduling, and the balance between water supply (available water resources) and demand. The available water resources play a key role in the agricultural sector, while an increasing share of overconsumption of vulnerable areas is due to the intensification of this sector and mainly because of over-irrigation. In arid and semi-arid areas, dependence on groundwater for water supply is significantly higher compared to other areas. It should be mentioned that water users of these areas continue to overexploit stocks during droughts without sufficiently considering their limited availability; this lack of agricultural water management further contributes to the environmental degradation of these areas. In addition, drought is an “insidious” natural hazard due to the reduction, at an unsuspected time, of the expected rainfall in an area or hydrological basin.
This Special issue focuses on agrometeorology aspects including recent experimental and modeling works in rural microenvironments and broader regions. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Micrometeorology micrometeorological measurements;
- Evapotranspiration and other mass (carbon, water, etc.) and energy fluxes;
- Radiation availability for photosynthesis and optical characteristics of plants;
- Radiation distribution in canopies;
- Droughts and impacts on plants;
- Agricultural water management;
- Irrigation management;
- Weather factors’ effect on phytopathology and plant diseases;
- Harmful organisms;
- Effects of temperature and water availability on plants and animals;
- Weather impact on honey production and bees’ behavior and productivity;
- Impacts of climate and climate change on forests and agricultural crops;
- Relations between climate attribute and biodiversity;
- Hydrological processes;
- Evapotranspiration models and evaluation;
- Agroclimatology;
- Comparison of biometeorological and bioclimatic indices;
- Methods and data validation;
- Remote sensing and crop modeling;
- Future projections;
- Aridity and changes of climate;
- Impacts of vegetation on rural microclimate;
- Changes in phenology of plants and animals;
- Plant ecophysiology.
Dr. Demetrios E. Tsesmelis
Dr. Nikolaos Skondras
Dr. Nikolaos Proutsos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soil–plant–atmosphere continuum
- micrometeorology
- forest ecosystems
- climate change
- agricultural production
- droughts
- drought impacts
- irrigation management
- evapotranspiration
- radiation fluxes
- plant growth
- plant–weather relations
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