Impact of Indo-Pacific Climate Variability

Dear Colleagues,

Indo-Pacific climate variability has a significant impact on various environmental processes of Earth systems. Sea surface temperature variability within the Indian and Pacific oceans along with global warming induced temperature and precipitation changes are an inevitable reality, and capturing empirical signals from various Earth system processes is a key challenge for the scientific community. Many research and academic institutes have already begun working on projections and predictions for Indo-Pacific climate variability from a seasonal to decadal scale. However, there is still scope for the scientific community to report on scientific evidence on the societal impacts of this coupled interaction process. Land–ocean–atmosphere phenomenon interactions have tremendous societal impacts on agriculture practices, water resources, hydroclimate, hydrometeorological disasters, and extreme events, as well as health hazards such as the propagation of vector-borne diseases, e.g., dengue, malaria, and insect bites, along with forest fires and biodiversity. The purpose of this Special Issue is to use state-of-the-art techniques to investigate the Indo-Pacific basin-wide impact and publish scientific research on various issues of importance for a sustainable society. In this Special Issue, all relevant scientific interactions involving the Indo-Pacific climate variability and its societal impacts will be given priority.

For this Special Issue, we cordially invite papers on observational and model-based studies on the impact of Indo-Pacific climate variability. Subject areas may include but are not limited to:

• Indo-Pacific climate variability;
• Impact of Indo-Pacific basin warming on agriculture, hydrology, hydroclimate, hydrometeorological disasters, forest ecology, mountain biodiversity, costal ecosystems, health hazards, etc.;
• Past and future environmental impacts;
• Climate-variability-induced extreme events.

Dr. Netrananda Sahu
Guest Editor

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