Characteristics and Attribution of Air Temperature Variability

Dear Colleagues,

Across Earth, air temperature is an important descriptor of environmental conditions, and with extreme temperature events nowadays occurring frequently, they have induced huge losses of life and to the economy. Therefore, it has become necessary to investigate the variability of air temperature at both the troposphere and stratosphere, including its characteristics and attribution.

Previous research has suggested that air temperature variability is related to variations in many other meteorological elements in the climate system, such as the sea level pressure (SLP), Arctic oscillation (AO) and North Atlantic oscillation (NAO), the Northern Hemisphere winter Hadley circulation, westerly circulation, the East Asian winter monsoon, sea surface temperature (SST), the greenhouse effect, solar activity, volcanic and human activities, etc.

The journal Atmosphere is hosting a Special Issue aiming to provide recent studies concerning the characteristics and attributions of air temperature variability mentioned above, over both tropical and mid–high-latitude regions. Original papers regarding the features and source of interdecadal, interannual, intraseasonal and synoptic air temperature variabilities are all welcome contributions, as well as encouraging work related to the anomalies of atmospheric circulation and external forcing (SST, sea ice and snow cover) related to air temperature.

Dr. Shuangyan Yang
Dr. Yanjun Qi
Guest Editors

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