The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Oceans and Coastal Zones".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 March 2021) | Viewed by 1551
Special Issue Editor
Interests: climate change; ocean heat uptake; sea ice loss; ice-sheet mass loss; climate dynamics; ocean–cryosphere interactions; effects of climate change
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A testament to the importance of this topic is that “The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate” was the title of a 2019 special report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The vast majority of people on Earth rely in some way on the ocean and cryosphere for food, freshwater, renewable energy, trade, transport, and other services. However, both the ocean and the cryosphere are currently undergoing, and are projected to further undergo, large-scale changes. Some examples of such large-scale changes are: most glaciers are shrinking, the Arctic sea ice extent is decreasing, ice sheets are losing mass, the oceans are warming, their pH is decreasing, and the sea level is rising.
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide recent advances in the field. The focus is broad; we encourage the submission of papers that utilize numerical modelling, theory, and observations to investigate and gain understanding of physical and/or biogeochemical changes in the ocean and cryosphere. All temporal scales are of interest, from steady state effects to historical changes and projected changes for the coming centuries. We especially encourage papers that go beyond purely descriptive work and further our understanding of the climate dynamics behind changes in the ocean and cryosphere.
Dr. Magnus Hieronymus
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Climate change
- Ocean heat uptake
- Sea ice loss
- Ice-sheet mass loss
- Climate dynamics
- Ocean–cryosphere interactions
- Effects of climate change
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