Emerging Hydro-Climatic Patterns, Teleconnections and Extreme Events in Changing World at Different Timescales

Dear Colleagues,

Unraveling spatiotemporal patterns and interactions among climate variables, especially those related to hydroclimate, has always been an important task for geoscientists in general, and for climatologists in particular, mostly because it contributes significantly to better prediction and forecasting. However, complexities are intrinsic to natural systems, and for this reason, the task of identifying patterns and interactions has always been challenging. Coupled with the existing challenges of global-warming-induced climate change, these patterns and interactions become further unusual, unexpected, and unpredictable. With these challenging realities, climate science studies globally recognize that climatic and other geophysical processes are intrinsically nonlinear and carry multiscale features along with influences that are in general of time-varying nature. This Special Issue is largely prompted by these realizations and an implied aspiration to develop a collection of advanced studies addressing aforementioned issues.

This Special Issue is expected to advance our understanding of these emerging patterns, teleconnections, and extreme events in a changing world for more accurate prediction or projection of their changes especially on different spatial–time scales. We invite authors to submit original and review articles that aim to study new patterns, interaction and its variability, including its impact to climate extremes, such as drought, flooding, heat waves, and so on. Submissions of recent progress in observational, modeling, and theoretical studies in relation to new connections interactions, especially those that apply advanced techniques to analyze the nonlinearity and multiscale nature of processes, are welcome.

Dr. Ankit Agarwal
Dr. Naiming Yuan
Dr. Kevin Cheung
Dr. Roopam Shukla
Guest Editors

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