Atmospheric Processes Shaping Polar Climate
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Meteorology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 August 2020) | Viewed by 5983
Special Issue Editor
Interests: arctic and subarctic seas; physical oceanography; ocean–air interaction; mathematical modeling; climate change
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Dear Colleagues,
The unprecedented decline of the Arctic sea ice between 2000 and the 2010s is an obvious indicator of ongoing climate change. There is growing evidence that a new state of the hydrometeorological regime is currently shaping under the rapidly changing conditions at the ocean surface in the marginal ice zones in the Atlantic and Pacific sectors of the Arctic Ocean. It is expected that this new state will be characterized by warmer and saltier well-mixed upper ocean layers instead of a quasi-two-layer structure with a cold and fresh upper layer under the permanent ice cover. A general north-eastward shift of such structural changes has already been documented in the Barents Sea and the Western Nansen Basin, where the main driver of change is the warm Atlantic Water inflow, and its influence on the upper ocean and the overlaying atmosphere has intensified due to the reduction of ice cover. For this Special Issue, we invite contributions on a variety of aspects of recent changes in the Arctic physical environment. We encourage submissions addressing interaction between ocean, atmosphere, and sea ice with particular emphasis on possible feedbacks and on studies linking changes in the Arctic to the mid-latitudes. Submissions that focus on newly emerging consequences of sea ice reduction on cryospheric and biogeochemical processes and their implications are very much welcome.
Dr. Vladimir Ivanov
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Arctic sea ice
- ocean–air interactions
- feedbacks
- atmospheric boundary layer
- vertical mixing in the ocean
- permafrost
- climate change
- biogeochemical processes
