Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions
A section of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433).
Section Information
Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere interactions play a crucial role in weather and climate. Surface water and energy exchange fluxes drive the diurnal and seasonal dynamics of the atmospheric boundary layer, on both local and regional scales. Surface–atmosphere trace gas exchange fluxes affect the chemical composition of the boundary layer, acting both as a source and a sink of atmospheric trace species, including both greenhouse gases and more reactive species that drive atmospheric chemistry, such as isoprene. Together, these surface–atmosphere interactions thus dominate the environmental conditions of life on Earth. As man-made emissions are altering the Earth’s energy budget, surface–atmosphere interactions are changing as well. Magnified or reduced hydrologic cycles and slowly changing biosphere and land surface conditions owing to land use change or increasing frequency of extreme weather and climate occurrences, will not only alter local to regional energy and water fluxes, but also trace gas exchange rates. Both are expected to create feedbacks on atmospheric conditions, including atmospheric chemistry, which will need to be understood to project future risks, and to effectively respond with mitigation and adaptation strategies.
Atmosphere invites contributions analyzing how local to regional energy and trace gas exchanges between the surface and the atmosphere affect atmospheric conditions, including, but no limited to, weather and climate phenomena from local to regional scales, exchange mechanisms, greenhouse gas and other trace gas fluxes and their atmospheric reactions, deposition processes, or anthropogenic land use change effects.
Keywords:
- Atmospheric boundary layer;
- Surface–atmospheric interactions;
- Land–atmospheric interactions;
- Forests–atmosphere interactions;
- Air–sea interactions;
- Wind–wave interactions.
Editorial Board
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Modeling Applications for Water Resource Security under Changing Climatic Conditions (Deadline: 30 December 2024)
- Natural Disasters and Hazards in the Geographical Environment (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Observation and Modeling of Evapotranspiration (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- Land-Atmosphere Interactions (Deadline: 17 February 2025)
- Forest Ecosystems in a Changing Climate (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Ocean–Atmosphere–Land Interactions and Their Roles in Climate Change (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Analysis of Global Glacier Mass Balance Changes and Their Impacts (Deadline: 5 March 2025)
- Advances in Land Surface Processes and Feedbacks on Climate and Climate Extremes (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Recent Advances in Earth Surface Processes: From Weathering to Climate Change (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Air-Sea Interactions: Recent Trends, Current Progress and Future Directions (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Solar Radiation, Aerosol, and Multiple Interactions Between Solar Radiation and Atmospheric Substances (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Response of Vegetation to Climatic and Anthropogenic Drivers in the Plateau (Deadline: 12 May 2025)
- Advances in Methods for the Investigation of the Atmospheric Water Cycle (Deadline: 15 May 2025)
- Cycles and Transformations of Mercury in the Atmosphere and Ecosystems (Deadline: 28 May 2025)
- Research About Permafrost–Atmosphere Interactions (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
