Young Researchers in Land–Climate Interactions
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land–Climate Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 11
Special Issue Editor
2. Earth and Environmental Sciences, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY 10017, USA
Interests: climate change; water resources planning; groundwater; land-atmosphere interaction; sustainable agriculture; urban ecological design; carbon cycle monitoring; renewable energy resource assessment; probabilistic forecasting; data assimilation; model uncertainty assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to highlight the work of early-career researchers in the field of land–climate interactions. The senior author(s) of each contribution should be (a) the first or the corresponding author and (b) within 10 years of completing their PhD (or equivalent) or becoming an assistant professor/on track to make tenure. We welcome contributions concerning the interactions between land and climate processes, including energy fluxes, carbon and other biogeochemical cycles, and hydrological processes, as well as other dynamics between the land surface and the climate system. Please provide a short cover letter when submitting that details the following:
(1) Eligibility of the senior author;
(2) Alignment with the scope of the Special Issue and the journal.
We invite the submission of theoretical, applied, and review articles, whether they be local, regional, or global in scale. Interdisciplinary work is also welcome, as well as studies of the potential contributions of land cover and land use to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Articles submitted for this Special Issue should meet the standard requirements of the Land journal (regarding quality, novelty, and significance) and be relevant to a broad international and interdisciplinary readership.
Contributors who obtained their PhD within the past 10 years will also be eligible for consideration for the Land Young Investigator Award. The award includes a CHF 2000 prize, a certificate, and a free publication voucher for Land. More details can be found at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/land/awards/3554.
We also encourage submissions from promising PhD students. Co-authored work with senior mentors is welcomed, and the involvement of mentors can further support the development of early-stage researchers.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Dr. Nir Krakauer
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Land is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- global warming
- climate adaptation planning
- land surface temperature
- carbon in agriculture and forestry
- biogeochemical cycles
- land–atmosphere energy exchange
- hydrological feedbacks
- urban heat-island effects
- extreme weather impacts
- greenhouse gas mitigation
- carbon neutrality
- climate change
- land management
- land planning
- land degradation
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