Interactions between the Cryosphere and Climate (Change)
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 February 2021) | Viewed by 13586
Special Issue Editor
Interests: glacial geomorphology; periglacial geomorphology; climate and paleoclimate; holocene; glaciology; permafrost; rock glaciers
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The cryosphere represents one of the Earth’s system compartments showing strong signs of dramatic changes due to climate forcing. If global warming is the main common driver causing such changes, the rates, impacts, and processes acting in the mountain and Polar regions can differ markedly. Estimating the response of the global cryosphere to climate change as well as the response of the components of the climate system to changes in the cryosphere relies on an understanding of climate–cryosphere interactions and processes in different regions along with different spatial and temporal scales. Atmospheric forcing has played a crucial role in driving trends and triggering feedbacks in the cryosphere, but changes to the cryosphere may further feed back into large-scale climate variability through atmospheric and oceanic pathways. This Special Issue invites contributions addressing all aspects of cold regions meteorology and the cryosphere interacting with the past, present and future climate system from both modeling and observations. Submissions from multiple approaches, i.e., past records, glaciers, ice caps, sea ice, permafrost, meteorological and geophysical observations, numerical modeling and downscaling methods aiming to advance the current knowledge of the feedbacks between the cryosphere and the climate system are encouraged. Interdisciplinary studies, as well as detailed process surveys, are highly welcome.
Dr. Renato R. Colucci
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cryosphere
- glaciers
- permafrost
- rock glaciers
- cold region processes
- paleoclimate
- climate change
- ice caves
- active layer
- climate–cryosphere feedbacks