Observations and Simulations of Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Radiation over the Southern Ocean
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Meteorology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (6 May 2020) | Viewed by 8440
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Cloud-Aerosol-Precipitation-Radiation Interactions; Atmosphere Remote Sensing; Mesoscale Numerical Modeling; Boundary Layer Meteorology; Mountain Meteorology
Interests: Cloud-Aerosol-Precipitation-Radiation Interactions; Atmospheric Remote Sensing; Synoptic Climatology and Machine Learning in the Geosciences
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Southern Ocean is a critical component of Earth’s climate system which has a significant influence on ocean circulation and anthropogenic carbon uptake. Unfortunately, large biases exist in the atmospheric radiation budget in both climate models and reanalysis products, which in turn lead to positive sea surface temperature biases over the entire Southern Ocean. These biases have been attributed to a poor understanding of clouds, aerosols, precipitation, and radiation, and their interactions in this region.
Due to the harsh environment of the remote Southern Ocean, much of our current knowledge is heavily dependent on satellite products which are themselves often limited by a lack of in situ observations for calibration. Motivated by the need to improve the fundamental understanding of key atmospheric processes of the Southern Ocean climate system, a range of ship- and airborne field campaigns have been taking place in recent years, yielding an unprecedented wealth of new data and insights.
This Special Issue aims to bring together high-quality observational (field and remote-sensing) and modeling studies of clouds, aerosols, precipitation, and radiation over the Southern Ocean to advance our understanding of the critical processes and their interactions. These studies’ central aim is to improve the representation of these processes in models at multiple spatial and temporal scales and to enhance the simulation of this region. Review papers and summaries of recent field campaigns are also welcome.
Dr. Yi Huang
Prof. Adrian McDonald
Dr. Christina McCluskey
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Southern Ocean
- Cloud-aerosol-precipitation-radiation
- Observations
- Simulations
- Multi-scale dynamical impacts
- Climate prediction and model parameterization
- Cloud microphysics
- Aerosol physics and chemistry
- Polar Meteorology
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