Lake Processes and Lake’s Climate Effects under Global Warming

Dear Colleagues,

Lakes are important indicators of climate change and show significance in terms of regional hydrological cycles and water balance. Under global warming, lakes’ attributes (lake area, lake level, lake volume, lake turbidity and transparency), meteorological variables and the lake–atmosphere turbulent heat flux (evaporation, ice sublimation, etc.)  all show significant variations, and thus have strengthened or weakened regional climate effects in different climatic regions of the world.  Thus, it is important to monitor the variation in lake variables in different continents and in all kinds of climate regions via in situ measurements, satellite data and numerical simulations. In this Special Issue, all research will focus on the measurements and numerical simulation of lake–atmosphere interaction processes, as well as lakes’ regional climate effects, including lake surface temperature, lake ice phenology detection, lake evaporation and lake sublimation estimation, lake level and lake volume change, lake catchment hydrological cycle and energy budget, lakes’ regional climate effects, etc.

This Special Issue is dedicated to highlighting new advancements in lake monitoring research with all kinds of in situ measurements, including satellite data with visible, thermal and microwave bands and numerical simulations.

Prof. Dr. Yaoming Ma
Prof. Dr. Binbin Wang
Prof. Dr. Jiming Jin
Prof. Dr. Lijuan Wen
Guest Editors

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