ENSO, Ocean Heat and Climate Change
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Meteorology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2022) | Viewed by 2537
Special Issue Editor
Interests: climate change; Earth system energy budget change; water cycle change; tropical cyclone
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues
We would like to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue of Atmosphere dedicated to research results of “ENSO, Ocean Heat and Climate Change”. With the data available from CIMP6 model simulations, observations and reanalyses, continual improvements have been made in the understanding of the relationship between ENSO, ocean heat and climate change. Increased resolution in geophysical model simulations, enabling the detailed study of the global and regional physical processes. At the same time, challenges remain; systematic model biases, observational inconsistencies, and reanalysis deficiencies are known to affect the reliability of climate statistics and the nature of physical processes linking ENSO, ocean heat and the climate change.
This Special Issue aims to (1) highlight improvements in our understanding of physical processes of ENSO, ocean heat change and the climate change from observations and climate model simulations and to (2) call attention to key areas where our understanding remains incomplete and could be developed by further progress in observations and climate model simulations. As such, we welcome research topics concerning new developments in these fields, as well as those addressing their evaluation and intercomparison.
While a broad range of ideas are welcome, topics specifically encouraged include:
- ENSO initiation and development mechanisms.
- Processes influencing ENSO development and prediction.
- Atmosphere–ocean coupled variability and change—effect of exchange at surface on the atmosphere energy and ocean heat, as well as their transports.
- Interactions between scales—multiscale interactions, boundary layer, ocean, and atmosphere.
- Climate change effect on the ENSO onset and development.
- ENSO effect on the environment and society.
Manuscripts may present original research or review previous work and summarise the current state of the science.
Dr. Chunlei Liu
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- ENSO
- ocean heat, redistribution and transport
- climate change
- exchanges between ocean and atmosphere
- surface energy fluxes
- atmospheric energy transport
