Search for Articles:
Title / Keyword
Author / Affiliation / Email
Journal
Article Type
 
 
Advanced Search
 
Section
Special Issue
Volume
Issue
Number
Page
 
4.1
2.9
Journals
Atmosphere
Special Issues
Various Climate Impacts on the Natural, Human, and Atmospheric Environment
share announcement

Various Climate Impacts on the Natural, Human, and Atmospheric Environment

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 3322

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Munkhnasan Lamchin

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
1. OJEong Resilience Institute (OJERI), Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Korea
2. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Institute for Sustainable Development, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar 14201, Mongolia
Interests: desertification and land degradation; land cover change and climate change; environmental change; remote sensing and spatial modeling (GIS&RS) with AI; atmospheric nanoparticles (PM0.1); aerosol; biomass burning
Dr. Chul-Hee Lim

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
College of General Education, Kookmin University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Interests: climate change adaptation; deforestation; spatial modeling; disaster risk reduction
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Prof. Dr. Altansukh Ochir

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute for Sustainable Development, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar 14201, Mongolia
Interests: water quality assessment; water harvesting; water quality modeling; land use/cover change; climate change impacts on water resources; suitability analysis for surface water harvesting sites
Prof. Dr. Woo-Kyun Lee

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 136701, Republic of Korea
Interests: forestry; land cover change detection; climate change adaptation and mitigation; climate change; disaster risk reduction
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

As a critical component of the natural world in which humans live, climate change would have an effect on the natural ecosystem, social economy, and human population. Global climate change would have a far-reaching, multiscale, and multilayered effect on human beings. This Special Issue focuses on the advancement of studies into the direct and indirect effects of climate change and the environment and atmosphere in the past and future. Climate change is having immediate consequences, which go far beyond a rise in temperature, impacting habitats and populations worldwide. The things we depend on and value—water, energy, transportation, biodiversity, agriculture, habitats, and human health—are all feeling the effects of climate change.

The Earth’s climate system operates on basic principles. The world cools as solar radiation is reflected off the Earth and back into space (most often by clouds and ice) or when the Earth’s atmosphere releases energy. The atmosphere warms when the Earth absorbs the sun’s energy or when atmospheric gases block the Earth’s heat from radiating into space (the greenhouse effect). Numerous causes, both natural and human, may have an impact on the Earth’s climate system.

Topics can include but are not limited to the following:

-   Climate change impact on forestry, agriculture, and the ecosystem in past and future;

-   Climate relation with the human environment;

-   Atmospheric environmental change attributable to climate change;

-   Environment change and monitoring based on remote sensing;

-   Assessment of environment and land cover change.

Dr. Munkhnasan Lamchin
Prof. Dr. Chul-Hee Lim 
Prof. Dr. Altansukh Ochir 
Prof. Dr. Woo-Kyun Lee
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Atmosphere is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Climate impact
  • Natural
  • Atmospheric
  • Human
  • Environment
  • Remote sensing and GIS

Published Papers (1 paper)

Order results
Result details
Show export options expand_more Show export options expand_less
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:

Research

16 pages, 4237 KiB  
Article
Fine-Grained Climate Classification for the Qaidam Basin
by Yuning Feng, Shihong Du, Klaus Fraedrich and Xiuyuan Zhang
Atmosphere 2022, 13(6), 913; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13060913 - 05 Jun 2022
Cited by 4 | Viewed by 1757
Abstract
The Qaidam Basin is a sensitive climate transition zone revealing a wide spectrum of local climates and their variability. In order to obtain an objective and quantitative expression of local climate regions as well as avoid the challenge to pre-define the number of [...] Read more.
The Qaidam Basin is a sensitive climate transition zone revealing a wide spectrum of local climates and their variability. In order to obtain an objective and quantitative expression of local climate regions as well as avoid the challenge to pre-define the number of heterogeneous local climates, the ISODATA cluster method is employed to achieve the fine-grained climate divisions of the Qaidam Basin, which can heuristically alter the number of clusters based on the input of monthly temperature and precipitation data. The fine-grained climate classification extends the traditional Köppen climate classification and represents the complex climate transformation processes in terms of fine-grained climate clusters. The following results are observed: (i) The Qaidam Basin is divided into an arid desert basin area and the surrounding alpine mountainous areas. The climate distribution is affected by both the altitude and the dryness ratio, which, employing the Budyko framework, largely characterizes the local energy–water fluxes at the surface and the related vegetation regimes (biomes). The fine-grained climate classification successfully captures their causal relationships and represents them well by the local climates: the climatic spatial differentiation in the mountainous areas is highly consistent with the topography and reveals an elevation-dependent circular distribution from the edges to the center of the basin; the climate heterogeneity within the basin presents a west-to-east meridional distribution due to the combined effect of the mid-latitude westerlies and the Indian monsoon. (ii) The climate gradients are spatially different over the Qaidam Basin. The surrounding mountainous areas have a large climate gradient compared to the inner basin; the southern mountain edge is governed by a more severe climate change than the north-eastern one; and the climate gradient is larger in the eastern than in the western basin. (iii) The lake regions within the basin show an obvious lake effect and reveal a local lake climate. Spatially, a common structure emerges with a dryer-climate zone or watershed embedding a wetter lake-affected area, which appears to migrate eastward becoming stepwise wetter from the very dry center to the wet eastern boundary of the Qaidam basin. This provides a topographically induced insight of the wet climate expansion of initially arid climates and is crucial to improve the Qaidam Basin’s ecological environment. Finally, although this work mainly focuses on the local-scale climates and their variability in the Qaidam Basin, the data-driven cluster methodology for climate refinement is transferable to regional- even global-scale climate studies, which offers broad application prospects. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Various Climate Impacts on the Natural, Human, and Atmospheric Environment)
►▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

Show export options expand_more Show export options expand_less
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:
 
Displaying articles 1-1
Back to TopTop