Special Issue "Climate Change and Climate Variability, and Their Impact on Extreme Events"
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2022.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate modeling; extreme events; dynamical downscaling; land use and land cover change; numerical weather prediction; statistical method applications; remote sensing applications and GIS
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Interests: Indo-Pacific variability; climate variability and societal impacts; climate change and river hydrology; agriculture; hydroclimate; disaster risk reduction; trend analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the present scenario, climate change and climate variability are of great concern around the world, particularly their impact on extreme weather events, which consequently affect all sectors, including habitat, economy, health, water, and agriculture. Thus, understanding the pattern of climate change and climate variability has been the focus of many researchers, and many efforts are being made to better frame the consequences of their future impacts. This Special Issue of Atmosphere seeks contributions on observational and numerical modeling studies to enhance the understanding of the global or regional climate patterns and variations over time in some measures of climate. This issue also encourages articles that discuss regional or global analysis of extreme weather events and their response to the climate change and climate variability trend. Contributions on model simulations and evaluations to advance the understanding of physics and dynamics associated with climate-change-related weather hazards will also be considered. Submissions in, but not limited to, the following research areas are invited:
Climate change;Climate variability;
Extreme events;
Climate modeling;
Hydroclimate;
Hydrometeorology.
Dr. Sridhara Nayak
Dr. Netrananda Sahu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- climate variability
- extreme events
- climate modeling
- hydroclimate
- hydrometeorology
Planned Papers
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Title: Impact of soil moisture initialization in the simulation of In-dian Summer Monsoon using RegCM4
Authors: S Maity1, S Nayak2,*, K S Singh3, H Nayak4, S Dutta5
Affiliation:
1. Research Institute for Global Change; Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC); Yokohama, 236-0001; Japan.
2. Disaster Prevention Research Institute; Kyoto University, Gokasho; Uji, Kyoto - 6110011; Japan.
3. Department of Mathematics, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology; Vellore - 632014; India.
4. School of Earth Ocean and Climate Sciences; Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar; Odisha - 752050; India.
5. Farmneed AgriBusiness Private Limited; Salt Lake 700091; India.
Abstract: Soil moisture is one of the key components of the land surface processes and a potential source of atmospheric predictability that has received less attention in the regional scale studies. In this study, an attempt was made to investigate the impact of soil moisture on Indian Summer Mon-soon simulation using a regional model. We conducted seasonal simulations using Regional Climate Model (RegCM4) for two different years viz., 2002 (deficit) and 2011 (normal). The model was forced to initialize with the high resolution satellite derived soil moisture data obtained from the Climate Change Initiative (CCI) of European Space Agency (ESA) by replacing the default soil moisture. Simulated results were validated against India Meteorology Department (IMD) data. Careful examination revealed that there was significant advancement in the RegCM4 simulation while initialized with the soil moisture from ESA-CCI despite of having regional biases. Whilst in general, the model exhibited slightly higher soil moisture than observation, RegCM4 with ESA setup showed lower soil moisture than that of with default one. Model skill was relatively better in capturing surface temperature distribution when initialized with high resolution soil moisture. Rainfall biases over India as well as homogeneous regions were significantly improved with the use of ESA-CCI soil moisture. Several statistical measures such as temporal correlation, standard deviation and equitable threat score (ETS) etc. were also employed for the assessment. ETS values were found better in 2011 and higher in the simulation with ESA setup. However, RegCM4 still couldn’t able to enhance its skill in simulating temporal variation of rainfall adequately. Although initialization with the soil moisture from the satellite performed relatively better in normal monsoon year (2011) but had limitation in simulating different epochs of monsoon in extreme year (2002). Thus, the study concluded that the simulation of Indian Summer Monsoon was improved by using RegCM4 initialized with high resolution satellite soil moisture although having limitation in predicting temporal variability. Overall study suggests soil moisture initialization has critical impact on accurate prediction of atmospheric circulation process and convective rainfall activity.