Climate Variations and Ocean Environment: Relationships, Feedbacks and Effects
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2023) | Viewed by 1219
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Interests: climate change; environment; environmental impact assessment; physical; geography; energy; numerical modeling; hydrology; environmental analysis; water-energy-food security
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting submissions to a Special Issue on “Climate Variations and Ocean Environment: Relationships, Feedbacks and Effects”.
Oceans cover approximately two-thirds of the Earth’s surface. They play decisive roles in the exchange of energy, matter and trace gases with the atmosphere and are host to many plant and animal species. Their ability to absorb copious amounts of greenhouse gases plays a decisive role in regulating the Earth’s climate.
However, the continuous rise in anthropogenically derived greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and the resultant changes in Earth’s climate threaten some of these important functions of the global ocean. Increases in ocean temperatures lead to widespread bleaching and the dying-off of coral colonies in many parts of the ocean, while the constant uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere results in decreasing pH values in the Earth's oceans. The unceasing retreat of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean not only results in devastating consequences for marine ecosystems and marine mammals, but also exerts significant changes in large-scale hemispheric ocean and atmosphere circulation, with marked effects on northern and mid-latitude climate and weather.
In this Special Issue, we invite contributions from a broad spectrum of disciplines as well as interdisciplinary work dealing with the impacts of climate change on the ocean environment with an emphasis on elucidating relationships, feedbacks and effects on various compartments of the ocean, as well as on atmosphere-ocean interactions. This may include observational investigations, experimental work or numerical modeling studies.
Prof. Dr. Manfred A. Lange
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- marine ecosystems
- climate change
- atmosphere-ocean interactions
- marine mammals
