Atmospheric Chemistry–Climate Interactions: Advances in Coupled Modeling and Applications
A special issue of Climate (ISSN 2225-1154). This special issue belongs to the section "Climate Dynamics and Modelling".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 387
Special Issue Editors
Interests: atmospheric chemistry; chemical transport modelling; forest ecosystem modelling; climate change impacts and adaptation; forest management optimization; carbon cycle dynamics; land–atmosphere interactions; biogenic emissions; model–data integration and validation
Interests: numerical modeling; metorology; model integration and validation; desert dust simulations; climatology of desert dust deposition; multivariate methods
Interests: aerosols; numerical modeling; inverse problems; volcanic eruptions
Interests: modelling and simulation of natural aerosol and their feedback with the meteorological system
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Dear Colleagues,
Understanding the interactions between atmospheric composition, meteorology and climate is essential for addressing the main environmental challenges, such as air pollution, climate change and ecosystem stability. Chemical Transport Models have been developed and widely used for several decades to simulate the emission, transport, chemical transformation and deposition of atmospheric trace gases and aerosols within the atmosphere. Early Chemical Transport Model applications mainly focused on the simulation of atmospheric composition and the analysis of pollutant transport at regional and global scales. Over time, the rapid development of computational capabilities and the increasing availability of remote sensing and ground-based observations have significantly improved model performance, evaluation, comparison and integration. More recently, the development of online coupled atmospheric chemistry models has enabled a more comprehensive representation of feedbacks between atmospheric dynamics, chemical processes, radiation and emissions. Models such as WRF-Chem, MPAS-A/Chem and other regional and global chemistry–climate modeling systems allow for the explicit coupling between meteorology and atmospheric chemistry, providing new opportunities to investigate aerosol–radiation–microphysics feedback, air quality variability and chemistry–climate interaction mechanisms.
This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances in atmospheric chemistry and climate modeling, with particular emphasis on online-coupled modeling frameworks and their applications. The issue is inspired by the European WRF-Chem Workshop 2026, which brings together researchers working on atmospheric chemistry modeling, air quality forecasting, aerosol–chemistry–meteorology feedback and coupled Earth system processes.
Submissions from both workshop participants and the broader scientific community are welcome. Contributions to this Special Issue may include model development and applications, intercomparison studies and model evaluation using observational datasets. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, air quality modelling and forecasting, aerosol–radiation and aerosol–cloud feedback, biomass burning and fire emission modelling, biosphere–atmosphere interactions, urban air pollution studies and the coupling of atmospheric chemistry models with regional and global climate systems.
Dr. Mauro Morichetti
Dr. Boris Mifka
Dr. Alexander Ukhov
Dr. Umberto Rizza
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- coupled chemistry–meteorology modelling
- aerosol–radiation and aerosol–cloud feedback
- fire emissions and biomass burning modelling
- biosphere–atmosphere interactions
- urban air pollution modelling
- dust and aerosol transport modelling
- model evaluation using satellite and ground observations
- operational air quality forecasting systems
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