Probing the Atmosphere: Instrumentation and Applications to Climate Research
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 704
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Earth’s atmosphere is an essential component of the climate system. To better understand climate change and its cause, a comprehensive understanding of its behaviour is necessary, which can be acquired through measurements of its temperature, its composition and clouds’ occurrence and radiative properties. The validation of climate model simulations, which relies on high-quality data records, is also essential for climate prediction.
Anthropogenic emissions have drastically altered the stratosphere’s composition, including the stratospheric chemical equilibrium, the ozone layer integrity and the stratospheric circulation pattern. Such alterations have further affected tropospheric weather, directly impacting populations throughout the world.
Most of the interactions between the stratosphere and the troposphere occur in the boundary region known as UTLS (Upper Troposphere–Lower Stratosphere), which is very difficult to observe from the Earth’s surface or with satellite instrumentation. In situ observations, together with satellite observations offering a global picture of atmospheric composition, are essential for climate reanalysis and the calibration and validation of satellite-borne observations to enable the production of multi-decadal Climate Data Records (CDRs) and acquire information about ECVs. Furthermore, the comparison of climate outputs with observations could us help evaluate and improve climate models.
This Special Issue will focus on:
- Recent advances in situ airborne techniques and climate observations;
- The report of recent improvements brought about by validation of satellite observations;
- Subsequent improvement in climate modelling.
Dr. Mélanie Ghysels-Dubois
Guest Editor
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