Understanding the Impact of Climate Extremes on the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: Integrating Multiple Observations and Modeling Techniques
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (23 December 2022) | Viewed by 1865
Special Issue Editors
Interests: carbon cycle modeling; atmospheric inversion; climate extreme impacts; global change ecology
Interests: remote sensing; forest ecology; climate change
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Dear Colleagues,
Climate extremes such as droughts and heatwaves have become unprecedentedly widespread over the globe in recent decades, posing a major threat to the stability of the carbon sink function of terrestrial ecosystems. Understanding the impacts of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle is an essential step for predicting the fate of the terrestrial carbon cycle, for which integrating multiple observations and modeling techniques is indispensable.
Multi-source observations from sensors ranging from in situ (e.g., eddy covariance flux measurements, tree ring, and field inventory) to space-borne implementations, used to measure the status of the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere, could provide in-depth insights regarding the impacts of climate on the terrestrial carbon cycle from multiple dimensions. Especially, recent novel Earth observations associated with environmental conditions (e.g., soil moisture and surface temperature), vegetation physiology (e.g., solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence, vegetation water content, and plant uptake of carbon isotopes and carbonyl sulfide), and atmospheric CO2 concentrations (e.g., satellite column concentration measurements) fundamentally support the implementation of such purposes. Meanwhile, new modeling techniques (e.g., machine learning, data assimilation, atmospheric inversions, or a combination of different approaches) largely enhance our capacity to understand carbon cycle/climate change impacts and feedback. Thus, integrating multiple observations and modeling techniques would offer new insights into understanding the impacts of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle.
Here, the open-access journal Atmosphere is hosting a Special Issue to showcase the most recent achievements on the above theme. We encourage the submission of studies based on observation and modeling, especially those integrating the two. You are welcome to contribute to this Special Issue.
Dr. Wei He
Dr. Peipei Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- terrestrial carbon cycle
- climate change
- drought and heatwaves
- resistance, recovery and resilience
- terrestrial carbon sink
- regional carbon budget
