Response of Land-Atmosphere Systems to Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbances at Middle and High Latitudes

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions".

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Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Interests: aerosols; climate change; atmospheric dynamics; climate modeling; air quality; remote sensing

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Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
Interests: eco-hydrology; ecosystem services; landscape ecology; earth observation; resources carrying capacity
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
Interests: ecohydrology; remote sensing; thermal fusion; urban environment; machine learning

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School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
Interests: remote sensing; polarization; water extraction; water resource
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Dear Colleagues,

Land–atmosphere systems involve a series of complex surface processes that substantially impact energy and water cycle. Understanding the response and evolution of such systems in a warming climate is critical especially for middle and high latitudes where societal and economic implications of drought, floods, and the Arctic Amplification cannot be ignored. Nevertheless, the spatiotemporal patterns of land–atmosphere interactions over middle and high latitudes are largely unexplored due to the limited observational records and uncertainty in model simulations. The purpose of this Special Issue is to provide insights into exploring the interactions and dynamics between land and atmosphere components. A comprehensive understanding of the variations, trends and attributions of ecology, hydrology and atmosphere in response to climate change and anthropogenic activities is encouraged.

We invite the original research articles regarding any aspect of the response of land–atmosphere at middle and high latitudes. Topics include, but are not limited to, ecological, hydrological and atmospheric dynamics. We are interested in studies using field observational and reanalysis data to delineate spatial and temporal patterns of land–atmosphere responses. Research using advanced technology such as earth observations, numerical modeling and machine learning are particularly encouraged.

Dr. Xueke Li
Dr. Shudong Wang
Dr. Kai Liu
Prof. Dr. Taixia Wu
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Keywords

  • land-atmosphere responses
  • vegetation-water-atmosphere dynamics
  • remote sensing
  • numerical simulations
  • machine learning
  • responses of land-atmosphere to climate change
  • anthropogenic interventions to the ecology-water-atmosphere cycle

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Warm–Wet Climate Trend Enhances Net Primary Production of the Main Ecosystems in China during 2000–2021
by Yuhe Ji, Guangsheng Zhou, Shudong Wang and Jun Zhao
Atmosphere 2022, 13(5), 738; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13050738 - 5 May 2022
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A significant greening trend has been reported globally in recent decades. The greening indicates the improvement in net primary production (NPP) in vegetation. Adopting statistics-based regression models, we investigated the dynamics of NPP and its climatic drivers in main ecosystems (forest land, grass [...] Read more.
A significant greening trend has been reported globally in recent decades. The greening indicates the improvement in net primary production (NPP) in vegetation. Adopting statistics-based regression models, we investigated the dynamics of NPP and its climatic drivers in main ecosystems (forest land, grass land, and unused land) over China during the period 2000–2021. The results confirmed an increasing NPP covering approximately 86% area in the main ecosystems. NPP exhibited an increase rate of 6.11 g C m−2 yr−1 in forest land, 4.77 g C m−2 yr−1 in grass land, and 1.25 g C m−2 yr−1 in unused land, respectively. Over the same period, warm–wet climate trend was observed covering approximately 90% of the main ecosystems. The warm–wet climate has had a positive effect rather than negative effect on NPP in the main ecosystems, judging by their significant positive correlation. Our results suggested that the increase in annual precipitation exerted much more important effect on the increasing NPP. The warm–wet climate trend contributes to the upward trend in NPP, even if variability in NPP might involve the influence of solar radiation, atmospheric aerosols, CO2 fertilization, nitrogen deposition, human intervention, etc. Full article
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