Dear Colleagues,

In recent decades, anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have significantly increased, causing global warming via heat trapped in the Earth’s climate system; this has led to a positive Earth energy imbalance (EEI) and global ocean warming. The ocean, as a vital regulator of the global climate system, has absorbed more than 90% of the EEI, resulting in an unprecedented increase in ocean heat content (OHC) and, consequently, the intensification of changes in the marine environment and climate. Global climate change and ocean warming have increased the number of extreme weather events such as typhoons and hurricanes and raised global sea levels; moreover, they pose a long-term threat to the marine ecological environment and sustainable development. Studies on global climate and ocean warming mainly emphasize the application of in situ gridded and reanalysis data, as well as remote sensing observations. For several decades, satellite remote sensing has collected multiple ocean observations at various spatiotemporal scales, greatly improving our understanding of ocean processes and climate change through space observation. However, the lack of consistent long-term and large-scale ocean observations (especially of the ocean interior) and advanced techniques hinders the inference and recognition of 3D ocean processes. Advanced remote sensing techniques must be used to further investigate the processes, mechanisms, and impacts of ocean warming and environmental changes under global warming, such as subsurface and deeper ocean warming, climate variability and extreme events, heat-transport and -redistribution processes, physical processes and internal dynamics, marine ecosystem health, and sustainable development, which have been greatly impacted by recent global climate change and ocean warming.

This Special Issue invites authors to contribute to advances in the study of global climate and ocean warming based on satellite remote sensing. We aim to present global climate change and variability studies reporting new techniques that combine satellite sensors and remote sensing big data with other observations (based on deep-ocean remote sensing; data fusion and gap-filling; artificial intelligence; deep learning; and dynamic model- and data-assimilation approaches) to detect the factors affected by global climate and ocean warming (such as ocean heat content, temperature, salinity, stratification, circulation, and other biogeochemistry factors). Articles may address, but are not limited to:

• Sea surface temperature and subsurface thermohaline structure;
• Ocean heat content and marine heatwaves;
• Multi-sensor satellite remote sensing;
• Deep-ocean remote sensing;
• Marine ecosystem health assessment;
• Ocean warming and sea level rise;
• Ocean climate and blue carbon;
• Sustainable development goals.

Prof. Dr. Hua Su
Prof. Dr. James A. Carton
Dr. Lijing Cheng
Dr. Wei Zhuang
Dr. Qutu Jiang
Guest Editors

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• climate change remote sensing
• deep-ocean remote sensing
• global climate and ocean warming
• ocean climate and extreme events
• artificial intelligence and data assimilation
• multiscale physical processes
• ocean heat content and blue carbon
• marine environments and ecosystems
• sustainable development goals