Greenhouse Gas Exchange between Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Atmosphere: Field Measurements and Model-Based Analysis
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 1882
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate change; carbon cycle; greenhouse fluxes; mathematical modeling; remote sensing; field flux measurements
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The overall goal of this Special Issue is to bring together new results of greenhouse gas (GhG) flux measurements in the field and modelling studies of the land surface-atmosphere interaction on the local and regional scales. The importance of these studies relates to the significant effect of increased anthropogenic GhG emission on modern climate change and the large contribution of terrestrial ecosystems to the global carbon budget. Over the past few decades, a number of field studies were conducted in order to derive the spatial and temporal variability in the energy, water, and carbon fluxes at the land surface-atmosphere interface and to quantify the global and regional GhG emission and uptake rates. A wide range of experimental methods including the eddy covariance and chamber techniques are used in these field studies. There are, however, large uncertainties in global and regional flux estimations due to either the lack of experimental data for some biomes or the mismatch of timescales between available data. Thus, new experimental data are very necessary for a better understanding of the spatial and temporal variability of GhG fluxes among various terrestrial ecosystems, as well as to determine their possible response to changes in environmental conditions. Process-based (1D or 3D) land surface-atmosphere interaction models are a very useful framework to incorporate specific ecosystem responses to altered environmental conditions. They can be effectively used in predicting the influence of land use and vegetation changes on the atmosphere as well as in deriving the effects of global change on terrestrial biomes. A large number of very important questions, related to the land surface-atmosphere interaction, still remain open and require new multifaceted studies.
For this Special Issue, we invite scientists working in meteorology, climatology, ecology, biogeochemistry and atmospheric physics to contribute new experimental and modelling studies of the forest–atmosphere interactions on local and regional scales. Contributions can include, but are not limited to, the following: field measurements of GhG fluxes using various measuring techniques, modelling of the land surface-atmosphere interaction, assessing the response of GhG fluxes to environmental changes, application of remote sensing data to derive the surface GhG fluxes, etc.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Olchev
Dr. Yulia Mukhartova
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- greenhouse fluxes
- field flux measurements
- land surface-atmosphere interaction
- eddy covariance and chamber measurements
- remote sensing
- modeling of atmospheric fluxes
