ERA5 Climate Application in Cold and Arid Regions
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Atmospheric Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 239
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Interests: climate change; regional response; ERA5 reanalysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cold regions (Arctic, Antarctic, and Tibetan Plateau) and arid environments are among the areas most sensitive to climate change. Recent cryospheric imbalances and persistent water scarcity in these zones have raised increasing scientific concern. However, the limited availability of in situ observations continues to constrain research in fields such as climatology, glaciology, hydrology, and environmental monitoring.
The advent of high-resolution reanalysis datasets, particularly ERA5, has significantly improved our capacity to study climate dynamics and extreme events in data-scarce regions. ERA5 is increasingly used for diverse applications, including cryosphere monitoring, energy balance studies, and water resource assessment in cold and arid regions. Despite its growing popularity, more efforts are needed to evaluate ERA5 performance, explore downscaling techniques, and expand its integration with remote sensing.
This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances in the use of ERA5 for studying weather and climate variability in cold and arid regions. Contributions may focus on ice-sheet/glacier dynamics, water scarcity issues, remote sensing-based downscaling of ERA5, and assessment of reanalysis accuracy. The integration of ERA5 with remote sensing is particularly encouraged to improve the understanding of spatiotemporal processes in extreme environments.
Paper topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Performance of ERA5 in cold and arid regions using in situ or satellite data;
- ERA5 and remote sensing for monitoring climate variability and extremes;
- Cryosphere dynamics and ice–atmosphere interactions;
- ERA5-based climate and hydrological modeling;
- Downscaling of ERA5 using remote sensing techniques.
Dr. Yetang Wang
Dr. Giuseppe Longo-Minnolo
Dr. Matteo Ippolito
Dr. Baojuan Huai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ERA5 application
- cryospheric dynamics
- climate changes in cold and arid regions
- weather and climatic extremes
- ERA5 downscaling techniques
- global and regional climate models
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