Climate Reanalysis
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 13138
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate change; Earth system energy budget change; water cycle change; tropical cyclone
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue of Atmosphere dedicated to research results based on climatological reanalyses of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans. Continual improvements in geophysical modelling, observation, and data assimilation techniques have given rise to a number of more spatially and temporally complete and physically consistent reanalysis datasets produced by institutions such as ECMWF, NASA, JMA, NOAA, NCEP, CMEMS, GFDL, and ZMAW. Many such sophisticated, synthetic representations of the Earth system now incorporate hundreds of state variables, with the horizontal resolution as high as 0.25 × 0.25°, enabling the detailed study of global and regional climate phenomena on timescales up to a century or more. Reanalysis products have proven to be popular tools in weather and climate research and monitoring, as well as in practical commercial applications in areas such as insurance, energy, hydrology, and agriculture. At the same time, challenges remain; systematic model biases, observational inconsistencies, and assimilation deficiencies are known to affect the reliability of climate statistics and the nature of physical processes represented in the reanalysis products.
This Special Issue aims to (1) highlight improvements in our understanding of geophysical climate processes and phenomena made possible by recent advances in the state of climate reanalyses and to (2) call attention to key areas where our understanding remains incomplete and could be developed by further progress in reanalysis techniques. As such, we welcome research topics concerning new developments and applications of all types of reanalyses, as well as those addressing their evaluation and intercomparison.
While a broad range of ideas are welcome, topics specifically encouraged include:
- Earth energy budget and water cycle change—accuracy in the representation of TOA and surface fluxes and energy transport; precipitation and ITCZ variation; understanding the energy constraint to precipitation;
- Atmosphere–ocean–cryosphere coupled variability and change—effect of surface and boundary layer on the atmosphere, ENSO variation, etc.;
- Land–atmosphere coupling, including biosphere–atmosphere coupling—soil moisture, vegetation dynamics, drought, heatwave, cloud formation, convection, land cover change, aerosols, process understanding;
- Interactions between scales—multiscale interactions, boundary layer, ocean, and atmosphere;
- Tropical–extratropical interactions—deep convection, overturning circulation, Rossby wavetrains, ENSO, MJO, teleconnection;
- Troposphere–stratosphere interactions, including the interplay between chemistry and dynamics—mass and chemical transport, gravity wave, ozone intrusion, large and small scales.
Manuscripts may present original research or review previous work and summarise the current state of the science.
Dr. Chunlei Liu
Dr. Todd R. Jones
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Earth energy budget change
- Water cycle change
- Climate change
- Global warming
- Climate dynamics
- Atmospheric dynamics
- Tropical–extratropical interactions
- Arctic–midlatitude interactions
- Troposphere–stratosphere coupling
- Coupled variability
- Atmospheric and ocean reanalyses
- Atmospheric, oceanic, and cryospheric observation
- Land–atmosphere coupling
- Biosphere–atmosphere coupling
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