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AMS Resources and Response to the Federal Science Crisis
Scope The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI)-based weather prediction models is transforming operational NWP. Not only do AI-based models generate forecasts whose accuracy rivals or exceeds that of leading physical models, but the combination of these paradigms has also led to the development of highly capable hybrid AI-NWP systems. The WMO’s Weather Prediction Model Intercomparison Project (WP-MIP) aims to identify the strengths and weaknesses of these different classes of NWP systems based on a large set of global deterministic medium-range forecasts. The “AI-ready” evaluation techniques developed within WP-MIP aim to provide a robust framework for assessment of forecast quality across the full spectrum of modelling archetypes. This special collection serves to aggregate WP-MIP model development and forecast-verification publications to support evidence-informed decision-making at the national meteorological and hydrological services preparing to operationalize the next generation of NWP systems.
Collection Organizers: Ron McTaggart-Cowan, [email protected], Environment and Climate Change Canada Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma Barbara Casati, Environment and Climate Change Canada
The U.S. Climate Collection is a joint initiative of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. Authors interested in submitting proposals for submissions should visit the collection website at usclimatecollection.org for information on the collection scope and instructions for submitting proposals.
Scope This Special Collection will consist of recent developments during FATIMA field campaigns (over the past five years). This will include papers, mainly formalized based on results presented at national meetings and reports that investigate smaller scales related to boundary layer turbulence, structure, fluxes, radiative fluxes, air-sea interaction, fog microphysics, aerosol particles as well as larger meso, synoptic and climate scales.
While the overarching theme is marine fog and turbulence during FATIMA field campaigns, this Special Collection will tie together all critical details of interacting turbulent aspects of an atmospheric marine boundary layer, as well as the relevant oceanic boundary layer beneath the air-sea interface. As it is impossible for any study, field program, collection of instruments or numerical modelling to cover all of the 1015 decades of scales involved, the next best thing is to bring these academic areas together in a common Special Collection to ensure that the investigators interact and work in the sub-portions where progress can be made. New measurements now possible by the latest technological advances that can provide new insights to provoke new directions by theoreticians and numerical modelers.
Papers in the collection focus on FATIMA field studies and related analyses as well as associated studies over the past five years. The field studies include C-Fog on coastal Newfoundland, FATIMA at Sable Island, Grand Banks and Atlantic Canada, and FATIMA in the Yellow Sea. The scope includes all scales of the atmosphere and ocean; numerical modeling; droplets and two phase dynamics; all aspects of marine fog and turbulence, as well as instruments, platform and novel measurements. A special collection dedicated to these topics, with contributions solicited from FATIMA scientists and collaborators will serve to significantly improve our understanding of marine fog.
Authors submitting to the following AMS journals can request inclusion in the collection when completing the manuscript submission process: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Journal of Physical Oceanography, Monthly Weather Review, and Weather and Forecasting.
Collection Organizers: Clive Dorman [email protected] Integrative Oceanography Division Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego
Kyung-Il Chang, Vice Chairman, PhD, GeoSystem Research Corporation #306 Hanlim Human Tower, 172 LS-ro, Gunpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, 15807, Republic of Korea, [email protected]
H. J. S. Fernando, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, and Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA, [email protected]
Ismail Gultepe, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, and Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA, and Professor at Ontario Tech Uni., Engineering and Appl. Sci., Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, and UTAA, Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ankara, Turkiye, [email protected]
Ki-Young Heo, Principal Research Scientist, Marine Disaster Research Center, Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST), Seoul, South Korea, [email protected]
Jung-Hoon Kim, Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (SEES), College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, South Korea, [email protected]
Darko Koračin, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, and Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA, University of Split, Split, Croatia, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada, USA, [email protected]
Seok Lee, Scientist, Ocean Circulation & Climate Research Department, Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST), Busan 49111, Republic of Korea, Seoul, South Korea, [email protected]
Dave Ortiz-Suslow, Department of Meteorology, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943, [email protected]
Eric Pardyjak, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84106, USA, [email protected]
David Richter, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, and Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA, [email protected]
Lian Shen, Sc.D., Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Director, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55414, [email protected]
Qing Wang, Professor of Meteorology, Meteorology Department, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943, USA, [email protected]
Scope This collection aims to synthesize cutting-edge research, innovative methodologies, and interdisciplinary approaches to enhance understanding of extreme events, their links to climate change, and their impacts on human and natural systems. The collection welcomes contributions that explore both the physical mechanisms by which climate change and natural variations affect extreme events, and the broader implications for society and the environment. Key focus areas include:
This collection includes all AMS journals and the Bulletin of the AMS (BAMS): Authors with a manuscript within the scope of the "Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective” collection should determine which AMS journal best fits the manuscript topic (see journal scopes and terms of reference). Authors should then follow the submission guidance on the Author Information page. Author charges for papers in this collection will be the standard charges for papers in the journal.
Collection Organizers: Stephanie Herring, NOAA NCEI Andrew Hoell, NOAA PSL Peter Stott, UK Met Office Hadley Centre and University of Exeter
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Scope The collection is intended to highlight new developments and novel applications of statistical and machine learning techniques in the fields of meteorology, climate and hydrology. The topics being sought include both theoretical expositions of novel statistical (including machine learning) methods, new applications of existing techniques, and comparisons of traditional statistical versus machine learning approaches. Example applications include, but are not limited to forecasting, data assimilation, downscaling, trend detection, and frequency analysis of extremes. Original research articles and review papers will both be welcomed.
Collection Organizers: Yu Zhang, [email protected], University of Texas at Arlington, US Julia Velletta, [email protected], ECCC, Canada Nachiketa Acharya, [email protected], Spire, US Andy Poppick, [email protected], Carleton College, US Xuguang Wang, [email protected], University of Oklahoma, US Vesta Afzali Gorooh, [email protected], Scripps Institution of Oceanography, US Leila Rahimi, [email protected], South Florida Water Management District, US
Scope In the past decade, the world has experienced uncharacteristic sequences of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events. In 2014–15, a strong El Niño developed over two years and led to a weak double-dip La Niña. In 2020, a weak El Niño was followed by a rare triple-dip La Niña. This was then followed by a notable El Niño event in 2023–2024. In a changing climate, it is crucial to understand, characterize, and forecast ENSO variability, as it plays a key role in climate adaptation and risk management. This special collection seeks contributions targeting the recent unusual evolution of ENSO, changes in its variability, the underlying processes driving these atypical conditions, its associated atmosphere—ocean teleconnections, and physical—biogeochemical climate impacts, including both terrestrial and marine environments, as well as predictability and prediction efforts. Contributions based on observations, reanalyses, modeling, and theoretical frameworks are welcomed.
Collection Organizers: Andrea Taschetto, [email protected], University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Sophie Cravatte, LEGOS, IRD, New Caledonia Antonietta Capotondi, CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA Yuko Okumura, Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Magdalena Balmaseda, ECMWF, UK Lei Zhang, SCSIO, China Agus Santoso, CLIVAR Office, China
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Scope The United Nations' Early Warning for All initiative aims to ensure that all people across the globe are protected by multi-hazard early warning systems within five years by 2027. This ambitious endeavor will mean that early warning systems need to be developed for half the countries worldwide who do not currently have adequate multi-hazard early warning systems. For many other countries improvements to early warning systems are required to ensure they are fit-for-purpose for increasingly hazardous weather induced by climate change, take advantage of innovations in weather forecasting and utilize emerging communications capabilities enabled by technological innovation.
Effective early warning systems depend on the existence, operation, and bi-directional flow of information across the 4 essential pillars of an end-to-end, people centered Multi-Hazard Early Warning System. They require information and expertise to be integrated across a multitude of domains including environmental observation, weather and hazard modeling, impact prediction, warning communication and decision making.
The information value chain provides a useful framework for describing and understanding the many different groups, skills, tools, relationships, and data/information flows that combine to produce and deliver warnings. It can be utilized for the design of new early warning systems, the improvement of existing systems and the evaluation of the impact, successes and failures of the operation of these systems in high-impact weather events.
We welcome contributions on tools to support the use of the value chain method, case studies of its application to the development of new and existing early warning systems and its utilization in the evaluation of existing systems generally and in specific high-impact weather events.
Collection Organizers: Carla Mooney, [email protected], Bureau of Meteorology Dr Beth Ebert, Bureau of Meteorology Dr David Hoffmann, Bureau of Meteorology
Scope From Sep. 2021- Sep. 2023, three field campaigns, the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL), the Study of Precipitation, the Lower Atmosphere and Surface for Hydrometeorology (SPLASH), and the Sublimation of Snow (SOS) experiment, took place in the mountains of the East River Watershed of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. While each field campaign had targeted, campaign-specific goals, the three campaigns shared a common goal of integrating atmospheric and surface observations of water and energy budgets in complex terrain to improve our understanding of the physical processes driving these budgets and, ultimately, their representation in models. Combined, the three field campaigns deployed a wide variety of instruments to make detailed measurements of cloud and precipitation processes, surface properties including snow characteristics, soil temperature, soil moisture, vegetation and elevation, the surface-air interface including radiative and turbulent fluxes of heat, moisture and momentum, and lower atmospheric thermodynamic and kinematic properties over the two-year campaign window. The analysis of the data collected from the three campaigns involves multiple research groups across several disciplines (meteorology, cryospheric sciences, hydrology, ecology) and agencies (DOE, NOAA, NSF, RMBL).
The three field campaigns were geographically and temporally co-located. This special collection provides an opportunity for the shared interests, observational synergies, and science results achieved across these campaigns to persist and propagate beyond those involved in the campaigns. We encourage papers using data from any of the three field campaigns to submit to this special collection.
Collection Organizers: Mimi Abel, [email protected], NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory Gijs de Boer, [email protected], Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, and NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory Dan Feldman, [email protected], Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Jessica Lundquist, [email protected], University of Washington Civil and Environmental Engineering
Scope Precipitation drives the atmospheric storage, movement, and quality of water. It is both the primary source of freshwater and a major driver of natural hazards. A fundamental hydrologic flux, precipitation comprises the most challenging processes to estimate, model, and predict, because of its variability at all scales and its evolving interactions with the water, energy, and carbon cycles under a changing climate. It is therefore a major component of uncertainty in weather predictions and climate projections, with significant implications for our ability to quantify water cycle dynamics, inform decision making, and predict hydro-geomorphic hazards in response to extremes. Precipitation research stands at the intersection of atmospheric, hydrologic, and climate sciences and demands dedicated attention in view of the tremendous implications for water availability and the impact of extremes for the safety, economy, and sustainability around the globe. A key to these efforts is model-observations synergy to advance precipitation science by jointly enhancing the accuracy of modeled processes and our insight into observations across space and time scales. This special collection of papers is based on advances in precipitation research and applications presented at the 14th International Precipitation Conference (IPC14), which brought together the international community to integrate research, discuss challenges and opportunities, and craft future directions.
The support by the NSF Hydrologic Sciences, Physical & Dynamic Meteorology, and Climate and Large-scale Dynamics programs (grant EAR-2330156) to organize the 14th International Precipitation Conference (IPC14), Norman, Oklahoma, June 2023, and produce the IPC14 special collection of papers is gratefully acknowledged.
Note for Submitting Authors This collection is labeled in the AMS submission system as “IPC14”.
Collection Organizer: Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter [email protected] School of Meteorology & School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science and Advanced Radar Research Center University of Oklahoma, & NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory
Scope This special collection includes articles related to a series of major field campaigns held in the vicinity of Houston, Texas from August 2021 through September 2022. The representation of the interactions among clouds, aerosols, precipitation, radiation, air quality and the environment remains a significant challenge for Earth system modeling. These processes are further complicated in the coastal urban environment where strong gradients in pollution and aerosol sources and environmental forcing present unique challenges. To better understand these processes, a multi-agency set of field campaigns collected a comprehensive set of state-of-the-art measurements on cloud, aerosol, precipitation, radiative, air quality and meteorological properties. These campaigns include the Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Facility TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) the NASA – Texas Commission on Environmental Quality TRACER – Air Quality campaign, and the National Science Foundation Experiment of Sea Breeze Convection, Aerosols, Precipitation and Environment (ESCAPE) and Convective cloud – Urban Boundary-layer Experiment (CUBE). The Houston region serves as an ideal environment to study these processes lying within a humid subtropical climate regime where onshore flow and copious sea-breeze driven convection interacts with local urban and industrial emissions to degrade air quality.
These campaigns are introduced in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Nowcast article “A succession of cloud, precipitation, aerosol and air quality field experiments in the coastal urban environment (Jensen et al. 2022). [Jensen, M. P., L. Judd, P. Kollias, J. Sullivan, R. Nadkarni, C. Kuang, G. McFarquhar, H. Powers and J. Flynn, 2022: A succession of cloud, precipitation, aerosol and air quality field experiments in the coastal urban environment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0104.1.]
Note for Submitting Authors This collection is labeled in the AMS submission system as “TRACER/TRACER-AQ/ESCAPE/CUBE”.
Organizers: Michael Jensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory, [email protected] James Flynn, University of Houston Laura Judd, NASA Langley Research Center Pavlos Kollias, Stony Brook University/Brookhaven National Laboratory Chongai Kuang, Brookhaven National Laboratory Greg McFarquhar, University of Oklahoma Prathap Ramamurthy, City College of New York John Sullivan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Scope Manuscripts submitted to this special collection should cover topic areas focused on in the 10th Workshop of the International Precipitation Working Group (IPWG-10) and the 6th International Workshop on Space-based Snowfall Measurement (IWSSM) that took place in Fort Collins, Colorado, 13-17 June 2022, hosted by the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University, and the 11th Workshop of the International Precipitation Working Group (IPWG-11) hosted by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Tokyo in July 2024.
The International Precipitation Working Group was initiated in 2000 after the 52nd session of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Executive Council recommended involving relevant science groups in a systematic manner to improve satellite system utilization. IPWG was then endorsed by the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS). IPWG provides a forum for operational and research users of satellite precipitation measurements to exchange information and fosters the development of better measurements and improvement of their utilization, the improvement of scientific understanding, and the development of international partnerships.
The first International Workshop on Space-based Snowfall Measurement was held in 2005. The goal of IWSSM is to bring together researchers focusing on the measurement of snowfall from space using active and passive microwave sensors for the purpose of assessing the state of the science and measurement technology and to recommend future directions in research and technology development.
These workshops and therefore this special collection have two primary goals: i) to review the state of the knowledge in active areas of research and explore common approaches that can lead to faster advances by the community; and ii) to recommend future directions to WMO/CGMS on topics related to precipitation. Focus areas include high latitude precipitation; orographic precipitation; temporal and spatial trends in precipitation, as well as novel algorithms, validation, applications in hydrology, communication to the user community, and efforts to improve precipitation forecasts through better modeling and assimilation.
Organizers: Viviana Maggioni, George Mason University, [email protected] Philippe Chambon, Météo-France, [email protected] Christian Kummerow, Colorado State University, [email protected] Takuji Kubota, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, [email protected]
Scope We hope to capture the increasing scope of weather, water and climate impacts on the security of nations and their peoples. The area of Environmental Security is very interdisciplinary, and submissions should encompass current research into the ways that extreme weather and climatic events impact national and human security within the context of 1) energy security; 2) food security; 3) water security; and 4) environmental health/security. Relevance of the weather, water, and climate enterprise to compiling a more complete picture of environmental security around the world is important for this collection. Submissions are sought from scholars studying the environmental and security aspects of water quality/scarcity, energy, food and health/diseases, allowing AMS members to see the “downstream” linkages from their traditional, physical science-based research. In turn, it is hoped that the exchanges of information resulting from this special collection will become a "two-way street", enabling AMS members to help the policy experts learn more about how our enterprise can inform their efforts.
Organizer: John Lanicci, University of South Alabama, [email protected]
Scope The Artificial Intelligence for Earth System Predictability (AI4ESP) workshop demonstrated a need for building a strong “AI-ready” Earth System community capable of keeping up with technological advancements and overcoming significant challenges. We propose a special collection of visionary articles aiming to further propagate the information gathered and research continuing to help inform the Earth System scientific community about the current state of knowledge, challenges, and opportunities to advance ESP using AI and ML approaches. We are seeking manuscripts and articles providing perspectives and vision on new artificial intelligence methods, analytical techniques, and applications to advance Earth and environmental systems science and Earth system predictability, as well as unpublished original research papers describing applications of AI to problems in Earth and environmental systems science. We anticipate that many of the chapters of the report from this workshop will be potential candidates for submitting papers to this special collection.
Organizers: Contact via email: [email protected] Nicki Hickmon, Argonne National Laboratory Olga Tweedy, AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at DOE/BER Charuleka Varadharajan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Haruko Wainwright, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Forrest M. Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Scott Collis, Argonne National Laboratory
Scope Atmospheric River Reconnaissance (AR Recon) has operated across the northeast Pacific Ocean in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. This observational campaign - which has been formally incorporated in the US National Winter Season Operations Plan since summer 2019 - involves the deployment of targeted airborne and drifting buoy observations during the winter season to improve weather forecasts and decision making on the U.S. west coast. During the first five years, this research and operations partnership has grown considerably, and the number of observations collected has increased significantly year upon year.
This special collection will include studies that detail the purpose and approach of AR Recon, as well as research findings relating to the study of atmospheric river dynamics and the impact of observational data on numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. Research using all types of AR Recon data, namely from dropsondes, drifting buoys, and airborne radio occultation, as well as several modeling systems including but not limited to the Global Forecast System (GFS) run at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), NAVy Global Environmental Model (NAVGEM) run at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, the Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) run at European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), and the Weather and Research Forecasting model (WRF) will be included.
This special collection solicits studies that span multiple American Meteorological Society (AMS) journals, and is organized by scientists involved in both the operational and research aspect of this campaign. The collection will contain contributions from AR Recon participants, but also seeks community-wide contributions.
Organizers: Alison Cobb, [email protected], Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego F. Martin Ralph, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego David A. Lavers, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Anna M. Wilson, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center Christopher A. Davis, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research James D. Doyle, Naval Research Laboratory Luca Delle Monache, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego Florian Pappenberger, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Carolyn Reynolds, Naval Research Laboratory Aneesh Subramanian, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
Scope We aim to encourage the use of evidence-based teaching and learning practices, and ultimately for improved education in the field of atmospheric sciences. For this special collection in the Bulletin of the AMS (BAMS), we seek studies that aim to improve atmospheric science education through reflective teaching and systematic evaluation of student learning (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, or SoTL). We invite articles that share new teaching strategies or activities. We also solicit formal education research articles that examine teaching and learning in an effort to understand how people build foundational knowledge and apply atmospheric science concepts (Atmospheric Science Education Research, ASER). Articles for this collection can describe studies conducted in a formal classroom, or they may also be investigations into informal learning that occurs in museums or during outreach activities. Submissions of research on continuing education courses and survey research are also encouraged.
Organizers: Dawn Kopacz, [email protected], University of Nebraska – Lincoln Casey E. Davenport, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Wendilyn J. Flynn, University of Northern Colorado Zachary J. Handlos, Georgia Institute of Technology Lindsay C. Maudlin, Iowa State University Peggy McNeal, Towson University
Scope There is growing community interest in moving beyond typical model evaluation metrics to process-oriented diagnostics. These diagnostics better constrain poorly-represented physics components in climate models, provide actionable feedback to model developers, and are expected to play a key role in advancing the next-generation climate and earth system models. The scope of this collection encompasses studies developing new process-oriented diagnostics – and the underlying understanding of climate system processes —as well as those applying existing diagnostics to climate models. Of particular interest are applications to models participating in the Phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) models but the scope is open to diagnostics of models beyond CMIP6, including higher-resolution models. The special collection solicits studies from all realms of the climate system, and will therefore span several American Meteorological Society (AMS) journals. The special collection will be organized by members of the NOAA Model Diagnostics Force (MDTF). The collection will contain contributions from current task force members, but will also seek community-wide contributions.
Organizers: J David Neelin, [email protected], University of California, Los Angeles John Krasting, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Fiaz Ahmed, University of California, Los Angeles Allison Wing, Florida State University Eric Maloney, Colorado State University
Scope Human and environment systems are adaptive and complex. They are highly interrelated through impact and feedback loops with nonlinear, reciprocal, and emergent properties across multiple organizational, spatial, and temporal scales. Understanding the complexities and dynamics of the human and environmental systems is crucial to sound environmental policy-making for sustainable development. Traditional studies mainly focus on either human or environmental systems, which have serious limitations in revealing their complex interrelations. The recent development of science and technology, particularly data acquisition and computational capacity, has made a significant contribution to new theory development and methodological innovation, which allows us to explore the complex systems as well as conduct site-specific empirical investigations. This special collection will include papers that focus on the most recent advancements in theory and application in understanding complex human-environment systems. Specifically, we seek research work on the following topics:
Organizers:
Li An, Department of Geography, San Diego State University, [email protected] Conghe Song, Department of Geography, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dapeng Li, Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences, South Dakota State University
Scope Ken Melville made remarkable contributions to a variety of different research areas, including our understanding of internal wave processes, edge waves, surface gravity and surface capillary waves, remote sensing, upper ocean dynamics, air-sea mass flux, the behavior of wind above waves, and a variety of technical instrument advancements, to name just a few. These contributions took the form of theoretical, numerical, laboratory, and/or field studies.
Papers in the collection should focus on theory, numerics, laboratory, and/or field studies of the dynamics of the upper ocean, and the atmosphere above it. A special collection dedicated to these topics, with contributions solicited from the leading scientists in these fields, will serve to establish a benchmark for the state of the art of our understanding of these processes in the new decade.
Ken’s legacy is closely connected with an ability to elucidate the underlying physics of a phenomena in question. Often driven by fundamental considerations (Ken often said to be wary of chasing epsilons), this collection would seek to attract important contributions to the field in this spirit. However, even these basic contributions shed new light on many aspects of air-sea interaction, and questioned many long-standing ideas in wave modeling. Therefore, we also encourage submissions to look into the future, not only regarding the basic physics of the upper ocean and lower atmosphere, but also for practical applications.
ORGANIZERS Nicholas Pizzo, [email protected], Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD Luc Lenain, SIO Luigi Cavaleri Italian National Research Council | CNR · Institute of Marine Science ISMAR
Scope Anthropogenic land use and land cover changes (LULCC) are exerting increasingly strong controls on hydrologic cycling at multiple spatial and temporal scales. These human-forced hydrologic changes perturb land-atmosphere interactions, feedbacks, and coupling strength, which can further affect land surface greenhouse gas fluxes, vegetation dynamics, and ecosystem services. These changes occur broadly across latitudinal gradients and within human-natural ecotones, ranging from rural to urban areas. Moreover, hydroclimate processes are increasingly influenced by systemic social and ecological changes, and thus it is necessary to highlight how human water pressures and demand are also reshaping regional climates and ecosystem processes at the watershed scale.
This special collection seeks contributions focused on one or more of the following: the effects of LULCC on the water cycle and interactions with other key biogeochemical cycles; impacts and interactions of LULCC and climate change; changing interactions, coupling, and feedbacks between the land surface and the atmosphere; changes in surface energy and mass fluxes related to changes in the land surface; irrigation impacts and interactions, changes to water cycling and recycling, and related processes; changing relationships between evapotranspiration, precipitation, and the hydroclimatic system; and changing water-related ecosystem services.
Nathan Moore, [email protected], Michigan State University Sonali McDermid, NYU
Scope Years of the Maritime Continent (YMC) is an international program with the ultimate goal of observing the weather-climate system of the Earth’s largest archipelago, the Indo-Pacific Maritime Continent (MC), to improve understanding and prediction of its local variability and global impact. The program is endorsed by CLIVAR and other WCRP/WWRP groups. Its participants come from over 15 countries. The program started in 2017 and is continuing through and beyond 2021 with several international field campaigns in the region.
YMC has motivated a surge of research activities on various topics related to the MC. Publications on these topics have appeared in the journals of AMS, AGU, EGU, MSJ, RMS, and CGU. To better serve readers of these journals, the YMC Science Steering Committee is coordinating with these organizations on a cross-organization special collection of papers on YMC topics. A master list of this special collection is hosted on the YMC homepage (http://www.jamstec.go.jp/ymc/ymc_sp_collection.html).
The five themes of YMC are Atmospheric Convection, Upper-Ocean Processes and Air-Sea Interaction, Stratosphere-Troposphere Interaction, Aerosol, and Prediction improvement. Main activities of YMC include field observations, data sharing, modeling, prediction applications, and capacity building. Authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts relevant to YMC to the participating journals of their choice. This special collection covers the period from January 2020 through December 2025. Authors of papers on YMC topics published in 2016-2019 in the participating journals may request their papers to be retroactively included in the special collection.
More information on YMC is available at http://www.jamstec.go.jp/ymc/. For questions specific to AMS journals, please contact [email protected].
Lead Organizers Chidong Zhang and Kunio Yoneyama Co-Chairs of YMC Science Steering Committee http://www.jamstec.go.jp/ymc/