Representation of Land Surface Processes in Weather and Climate Models

Dear Colleagues,

Land surface processes aim to describe the behaviour of global energy, water and carbon cycle from the surface components to enhance our capacity to monitor and predict the natural resources and their evolution in time. These processes are essential parts of numerical weather prediction and climate models. More realistic descriptions of processes and their interactions with the atmosphere is at the heart of research efforts to improve weather and climate forecasts. This Special Issue will include, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Process understanding and interaction of the surface conditions (soil moisture, land surface temperature, snow, phenology etc.) with the atmosphere
• Representing anthropogenic effects (irrigation, crop modelling, land-use change etc.) in land surface models
• High-resolution land surface modelling for improved global application (extreme events, CO2 monitoring etc.)
• Evaluation and benchmarking of land surface model components

Dr. Souhail Boussetta
Guest Editor

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