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Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation in Urban Areas

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2022) | Viewed by 7635

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Prof. Dr. Sergei Soldatenko

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St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 195197 Saint Petersburg (ex Leningrad), Russia
Interests: atmospheric sciences; climate modelling; climate risk assessment; numerical weather prediction; sustainability; climate and meteorological services
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Dear Colleagues,

Climate change is currently among the most pressing global issues, and is adversely affecting the vital interests and fate of all mankind, requiring the consolidated efforts of all states of the world for their solution. There is a scientific and political consensus in the assessment of trends in climate change and the reasons giving rise to this change, which was enshrined in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. Changes in the climate system, spanning an extremely wide range of spatial and temporal scales, affect the environment, communities, and various human activities, generating climate-related risks. Climate risk management provides developing strategies for mitigating that kind of risk via climate change adaptation, disaster management, sustainable development, etc.

This Special Issue will showcase research on climate change effects on the environmental conditions across a wide range of spatial scales, from global to urban. We encourage the submission of papers discussing essential features of climate change and variability in different parts of the world obtained from observations and using climate models. Articles focusing on the identification of the risks climate change poses to various organizations, institutions, and natural and anthropogenic systems, and on the development of adaptation measures to secure a resilient and prosperous future, are very welcome. Contributions describing the development of techniques and methodologies to mitigate climate risks are of considerable interest. Since geoengineering represents one of the most radical approaches to mitigating the effects of global warming, articles that examine geoengineering techniques and their potential applications and uses are of particular interest.

Thus, the main purpose of this Special Issue is to shed more light on the effects of climate change on natural systems and human society.

Prof. Dr. Sergei Soldatenko
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • climate change and variability
  • climate risks
  • climate modelling
  • geoengineering
  • managing climate risks
  • adaptation measures
  • vulnerability to climate change

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Global/Regional Impacts on Present and Near-Future Climate Regimes in the Metropolitan Region of Belém, Eastern Amazon
by Carlos B. B. Gutierrez, Everaldo B. de Souza and Dione M. G. Gutierrez
Atmosphere 2022, 13(7), 1077; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13071077 - 07 Jul 2022
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Impact studies have contributed to a better integrated scientific understanding of the climate and environment of the Amazon, in the present, past, and future. This work aims to describe the regional impacts of human-induced landcover changes on the RAINY (January to April) and [...] Read more.
Impact studies have contributed to a better integrated scientific understanding of the climate and environment of the Amazon, in the present, past, and future. This work aims to describe the regional impacts of human-induced landcover changes on the RAINY (January to April) and DRY (July to November) regime of the Metropolitan Region of Belém (MRB), the first frontier of Amazonian occupation. Furthermore, a dynamic downscaling (RegCM4 driven by HadGEM2-ES under the RCP8.5 scenario) was performed to investigate future global climate change impacts. A present climate (1985/2020) quantitative analysis showed that the disorderly urban enlargement in Belém and the forest suppression that led to the uncontrolled expansion of pasture/agriculture area over MRB has conditioned a local warmer climate with a significant increasing air temperature trend in both seasonal regimes. Another clear piece of evidence was the systematic intensification of the precipitation during the RAINY period. RegCM4 simulations indicate that the region will be impacted by the global climate change, such that warmer conditions in the DRY and intensified rainfall in the RAINY regime are expected to persist in the coming decades (2021/2045). Our findings for the MRB (area 3565 km2 for a population about 2.5 million inhabitants) are relevant and should be considered in the tasks of long-term planning and elaboration of advanced strategies to mitigate future climate-related risks and urban disaster management. Full article
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Conceptual Framework for Disaster Management in Coastal Cities Using Climate Change Resilience and Coping Ability
by Moslem Imani, Shang-Lien Lo, Hoda Fakour, Chung-Yen Kuo and Shariat Mobasser
Atmosphere 2022, 13(1), 16; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13010016 - 23 Dec 2021
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Global warming and environmental changes have resulted in more frequent and extreme weather events, as well as larger-scale disasters around the world. This study presents a disaster risk analysis in Taiwan coastal area using the Climate Disaster Resilience Index (CDRI) and examines the [...] Read more.
Global warming and environmental changes have resulted in more frequent and extreme weather events, as well as larger-scale disasters around the world. This study presents a disaster risk analysis in Taiwan coastal area using the Climate Disaster Resilience Index (CDRI) and examines the strategies adopted by the coastal residents of Taiwan, through a new concept of “copability” analysis. Based on the results, the majority of the coastal regions fall under the medium-to-low resilient category with the south-western and northern coast of Taiwan as the most high-risk regions posing a high risk to millions of people facing climatic disasters in the future. The coping mechanisms used by local residents are also influenced by the socioeconomic status of the decision-makers as well as the synchronization of disasters. Based on the findings, a 4R management package is developed in which the copability and resilience management strategy are squeezed into four main sectors of resource, reason, roadmap, and respond to work towards a more coordinated management and use of natural resources across sectors and scales. It is advised that all governmental, private, and community actors implement coherent climate risk management measures, accompanied by mitigation initiatives, in order to establish a sustainable level of climate resilience in cities. Full article
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