Atmospheric Processes Shaping Arctic Climate

Dear Colleagues,

The impacts of global climate change are felt exceptionally strongly over the high-latitude Arctic. On average, the region is warming at a rate that is double that of the global mean temperature increase. As a result of amplified warming, Arctic sea ice has seen a rapid decline, and the terrestrial snow pack characteristics over the surrounding Arctic land masses is showing regional responses to this warming, including over the Greenland Ice Sheet. Warming and moistening is occurring across the Arctic troposphere, potentially changing the thermodynamic phase, vertical distribution, and radiative properties of clouds. The changes observed over the Arctic will have critical impacts on the energy budget, and in turn feedback mechanisms may act to amplify this Arctic warming trend.

This Special Issue is focused on soliciting papers that contribute to an improved understanding of atmospheric processes impacting Arctic climate. Examples of particularly interesting topics include (not an exhaustive list):

• Cloud microphysics and turbulence structure
• Aerosol composition and vertical distribution, and aerosol-cloud interactions
• Atmospheric and surface energy budgets
• Atmospheric advection and transport of heat and moisture to/from the high latitudes
• Feedback mechanisms
• Evolution of atmospheric processes (and their importance) under a rapidly changing Arctic climate

This call solicits process-level studies based on both observations and model simulations. This includes intensive observational field campaign studies, long-term in-situ observatories, satellite observations, and simulations from idealized models, weather forecast models, and global circulation models. Studies that encompass a broad range of spatial and temporal scales, ranging from aerosol concentrations and turbulence, up to midlatitude-Arctic linkages, are encouraged.

Dr. Joseph Sedlar
Guest Editor

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