Special Issue "New Approaches to Complex Climate Systems"

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 2 September 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Jingfang Fan
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Guest Editor
1. School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
2. Earth System Analysis, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Interests: climate change; climate networks; statistical physics; complexity science; extreme climate events; data analysis
Dr. Sridhara Nayak
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Severe Storm Research Section, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto 611 0011, Japan
Interests: climate modeling; extreme events; dynamical downscaling; land use and land cover change; numerical weather prediction; statistical methods applications; Remote Sensing applications and GIS
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Dr. Jun Meng
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School of Sciences, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China
Interests: system science; complex science; climate science; statistical physics; theoretical physics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change has the potential to threaten our society through impacts on health, economics, conflict, migration, and demographics. As a result of the strong complexity and nonlinearity of the Earth system, the understanding and, in particular, the forecasting of such events represent formidable challenges for the scientific community. Sophisticated modern techniques, from machine learning and network theory to nonlinear data analysis, can provide crucial predictive power for mitigating the global-warming crisis and other socio-climatic challenges. This is currently a hot research topic in all branches of science and technology. This is a timely Special Issue in which outstanding scientists from around the world and from all related areas can gather together and exchange ideas and concerns from different aspects.

Dr. Jingfang Fan
Dr. Sridhara Nayak
Dr. Jun Meng
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Climate networks 
  • Complex Earth systems 
  • Critical phenomena 
  • Nonlinear data analysis 
  • Machine learning 
  • Tipping elements 
  • Climate resilience

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Complex Networks Reveal Teleconnections between the Global SST and Rainfall in Southwest China
Atmosphere 2021, 12(1), 101; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12010101 - 12 Jan 2021
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Droughts and floods have frequently occurred in Southwest China (SWC) during the past several decades. Yet, the understanding of the mechanism of precipitation in SWC is still a challenge, since the East Asian monsoon and Indian monsoon potentially influence the rainfall in this [...] Read more.
Droughts and floods have frequently occurred in Southwest China (SWC) during the past several decades. Yet, the understanding of the mechanism of precipitation in SWC is still a challenge, since the East Asian monsoon and Indian monsoon potentially influence the rainfall in this region. Thus, the prediction of precipitation in SWC has become a difficult and critical topic in climatology. We develop a novel multi-variable network-based method to delineate the relations between the global sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTA) and the precipitation anomalies (PA) in SWC. Our results show that the out-degree patterns in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Ocean significantly influence the PA in SWC. In particular, we find that such patterns dominated by extreme precipitation change with the seasons. Furthermore, we uncover that the teleconnections between the global SSTA and rainfall can be described by the in-degree patterns, which dominated by several vital nodes within SWC. Based on the characteristics of these nodes, we find that the key SSTA areas affect the pattern of the nodes in SWC with some specific time delays that could be helpful to improve the long-term prediction of precipitation in SWC. Full article
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