Dear Colleagues,

Sea surface temperatures have increased significantly over the past four decades at regional and global scales. This warming affects climate and biogeochemical cycles, ocean circulation, stratification, melting of ocean-bounding glaciers and ice sheets around Greenland and Antarctica, and the exchange of momentum, heat, and gases between the ocean and atmosphere. In addition, this accelerated warming can lead to extreme events (e.g., marine heat waves, low chlorophyll-a concentrations, storm surges) that have devastating effects on the marine ecosystem (e.g., coral bleaching, eutrophication, death of benthic communities, harmful algal blooms). Sea surface temperature, surface air temperature, and sea ice concentration have been classified as essential climate variables (ECVs) by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) due to their climate relevance, technical feasibility, and cost-effectiveness, as they play an important role in regulating Earth's climate system and its variability. In addition, large-scale teleconnection patterns (e.g., El Niño-Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation) can modulate large-scale climate variability.

We invite papers which use Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Ice concentration, and chlorophyll-a remote-sensing datasets and techniques to understand spatiotemporal trends and extreme events. Furthermore, the possible relation between atmospheric forcings (i.e., Heat fluxes, wind) and large-scale teleconnection patterns with these extreme events.

Dr. Hazem Nagy
Dr. Omneya Ibrahim
Dr. Bayoumy Mohamed
Guest Editors

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• sea surface temperature
• extreme events (e.g., atmospheric and oceanic heatwaves, low chlorophyll-a)
• climate change
• air-sea interaction
• biogeochemical cycle
• large-scale teleconnection pattern
• coral bleaching
• sea ice concentration