Air-Sea Coupling

Dear Colleagues,

Air-sea coupling is one of the most important processes that can affect weather, climate, and atmospheric chemical composition. Air-sea exchange of heat, water vapor, and momentum can affect sea surface temperature and upper temperature stratification and can affect atmospheric boundary layer stability. The ocean plays an important role in global budgets of numerous atmospheric trace compounds as a source and sink, and the reverse could also be true. Our understanding of air-sea coupling remains lacking or nebulous in many areas due in large part to incomplete fundamental knowledge, the scarcity of measurements, and poor representation in models, such as the effects of air-sea coupling on tropospheric cyclones, oceanic uptake and storage of carbon dioxide, and the role of air-sea interaction in climate dynamics, variability of atmospheric compounds and aerosols, ocean physics, and biogeochemistry. This Special Issue is aimed at addressing the most outstanding science questions/issues in these areas in hope to capture the most up-to-date advancement of air-sea coupling science.

Dr. Huiting Mao
Guest Editor

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