Climate Variability and Climate Extreme Events over Asia on Various Time-Scales since the Last Glacial Maximum

Dear Colleagues,

Much attention has been dedicated toward improving the understanding of climate variability and climate extreme events on different time scales over the Asia region, and influences on regional water resources, ecosystems, and environments since the Last Glacial Maximum. This topic has been the focus of the climatology, geology, and geography communities through observation, reconstruction, and modeling, but big challenges still remain within areas such as spatial extents and durations of climate variability on different time-scales, differentiations of influences from anthropogenic and natural forcings, gaps (e.g., magnitudes and extents) between paleoclimate reconstructions and model simulations, and physical mechanisms behind typical extreme events (e.g., Younger Dryas, 8.2 ka BP event, 4.2 ka BP event, Little Ice Age, etc.).

To improve communication on current progress, this Special Issue invites papers focusing on different aspects of climate variability and climate extreme events on different time-scales over the Asia region, and corresponding influences since the LGM, including but not limited to evidence and predictions of climate variability and changes on different time-scales, and corresponding influences and adaptions; characteristics, variability, and mechanisms of extreme climate events from centennial to inter-annual scales; comparisons between paleoclimate reconstructions and modeling; and different influences from natural and anthropogenic forcings.

Dr. Liang Ning
Dr. Jun Cheng
Dr. Zhengguo Shi
Dr. Mi Yan
Dr. Yonggang Liu
Dr. Zhengyu Liu
Prof. Dr. Ruibo Zhang
Dr. Deepak Chandan
Prof. Dr. John W. Williams
Guest Editors

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