Novel Methods and Approaches for the Remote Ground-Based and Orbital Observations of Carbon Cycle
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Atmospheric Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 October 2022) | Viewed by 3084
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Interests: tropospheric air chemistry; in situ observations; air quality and pollution; ozone; methane
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Dear Colleagues,
During the last few years, we have observed significant progress in satellite and ground-based remote sensing that covers more and more new areas and makes a great contribution to the exploration of the Earth system. The carbon cycle binds together its components (biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere), ensuring migration and transformation of the primary life element—carbon. So, biogeochemical processes with participation of carbon included in the main greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide and methane) directly imply climate change—one of the principle challenges for humanity. Carbon-containing air pollutants (carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, black carbon, etc.) are important for air quality and are indicators of economical activity, state of ecology and climate changes. The Earth’s carbon cycle is induced by numerous factors and processes such as atmosphere–biosphere interactions, land use, anthropogenic pollution, wildfires, volcanoes, and so on. Most of them are directly or implicitly monitored from space.
So, this Special Issue is expected to reflect up-to-date levels of spaceborne and ground-based measurements of carbon cycle and to present novel methods and approaches for remote monitoring, including instrumentation, data validation, processing and assimilation for scientific research, and interpreting measurement results. Importantly, the scope of this Special Issue is to introduce researchers to the latest satellite databases and products which can be used to trace carbon chains in different environments around the world.
We hope that this Special Issue will collect remarkable papers from both scientists and engineers investigating carbon pools in the Earth’s crust and water basins, organic carbon in plants and soils, emissions of carbon-containing substances (greenhouse gases, organic compounds, soot) into the atmosphere and their variations in different time and space resolution in background and urban regions using remote data from both the latest and routine orbital sensors. We also invite work from researchers who use high-quality ground-based data and models to help to validate satellite measurements for carbon cycle investigations.
Dr. Andrey I. Skorokhod
Dr. Vadim S. Rakitin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Carbon cycle
- Satellite observations
- Greenhouse gases
- Carbon dioxide
- Methane
- Carbon monoxide
- Spectroscopy
- Atmospheric composition
- Vegetation
- Earth system
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