Snow Cover—Processes, Changes, Connections
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2021) | Viewed by 3974
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climatology; climate change; snow cover; atmospheric circulation; centers of atmospheric action; bioclimatology
Interests: snow cover; upwelling; macro-scale circulation types; atmospheric circulation; climate change
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Dear Colleagues,
Snow cover has great importance in the Earth's environment affecting radiation balance and water budget. It is a key factor in the feedback loop that explains global warming: shorter snow cover duration → lower albedo → higher temperature → shorter snow cover duration → ... Nevertheless, we have not yet learned the full details of either the mechanisms and processes within snow cover itself, or the relationship of snow cover with other climate and environmental elements. This Special Issue will collect and present the latest research on these snow cover mechanisms, processes, and connections in different regions of the world.
This Special Issue invites articles on the following:
- Properties and processes relating to snow cover, including physical and chemical properties, ablation, accumulation, sublimation, subsidence, snow deflation, etc.
- Long-term changes of area, duration, and depth of snow cover and snow water equivalent
- direct and indirect connections, teleconnections, and feedbacks of snow cover and atmospheric circulation, climate elements, environmental elements, etc.
The issue will present aspects of snow cover at different spatial scales, including small geographical regions, continents, hemispheres, and the Earth.
Dr. Małgorzata Falarz
Prof. Dr. Ewa Bednorz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate
- snow cover
- processes
- ablation
- accumulation
- climate change
- connections
- meteorology
- climatology
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