About this Research Topic
During the past several decades, great changes have taken place in ecology, meteorology and even our daily life, due to the ever-exacerbating effects of global warming. Extreme droughts and floods occur frequently, which cause agricultural production safety, forest fires and environmental deterioration, threatening the security and stability of ecosystems. Therefore, systematic researches on the impacts of global warming on ecology and meteorology and the related physical mechanisms, evaluation and prediction are of great practical significance. These will provide new insights on the never-before-seen features and physical mechanisms of ecology and climate change, and thus improve human capacity to cope with climate change.
This Research Topic focuses mainly on the physical mechanisms which are driving global warming, and their role in evaluation and prediction. This includes not only the theoretical findings in the diagnostic analysis of weather and short-term climate change (including the changes in temperature, precipitation, moisture cycle, water resource, and so on), assessment and prediction of their impacts on human society and ecosystems using some physical methods, but also the physical mechanism behind their interaction based on the analysis of real data of climate change or other related issues. Our interest extends beyond diagnosis, evaluation, and challenges to existing influence of climate warming on our daily life, society, ecosystems, etc. Such papers will not only reflect the current state of the field; they will also have the potential to stimulate and guide future research efforts.
We encourage submissions which offer insight into fundamental concepts (such as climate factors, global behaviors, climate zones, external forcing and internal factors, weather patterns), methods (such as forecast method of weather and climate, bifurcation analysis of biological system and ecosystems, response of ecosystems to climate change and adaptation strategy, and any basic theory and method of dynamics or statistics), significant climate disasters (such as the violent Meiyu in China in 2020, forest fires in Australia in 2019, etc.) caused by global change, or theoretical framework and modeling (such as impact mechanism, adaptation strategies, dynamical modeling, etc.).
We also expect papers that go beyond unifying previous theoretical and empirical work and explore emerging phenomena and novel research areas, especially in the physical mechanisms, which merit further development. Such papers would not only clearly explain the importance and impact of the phenomena or research area for the climate change field, but also describe the critical prospects for future research. Such papers may also support some ways to extend researches on adaptation strategies of ecosystems to climate change. All in all, we envisage a Research Topic that can not only review the prior studies but also redirect research within influencing physical mechanisms of climate warming on ecology and meteorology.
This Research Topic focuses mainly on the physical mechanisms which are driving global warming, and their role in evaluation and prediction. This includes not only the theoretical findings in the diagnostic analysis of weather and short-term climate change (including the changes in temperature, precipitation, moisture cycle, water resource, and so on), assessment and prediction of their impacts on human society and ecosystems using some physical methods, but also the physical mechanism behind their interaction based on the analysis of real data of climate change or other related issues. Our interest extends beyond diagnosis, evaluation, and challenges to existing influence of climate warming on our daily life, society, ecosystems, etc. Such papers will not only reflect the current state of the field; they will also have the potential to stimulate and guide future research efforts.
We encourage submissions which offer insight into fundamental concepts (such as climate factors, global behaviors, climate zones, external forcing and internal factors, weather patterns), methods (such as forecast method of weather and climate, bifurcation analysis of biological system and ecosystems, response of ecosystems to climate change and adaptation strategy, and any basic theory and method of dynamics or statistics), significant climate disasters (such as the violent Meiyu in China in 2020, forest fires in Australia in 2019, etc.) caused by global change, or theoretical framework and modeling (such as impact mechanism, adaptation strategies, dynamical modeling, etc.).
We also expect papers that go beyond unifying previous theoretical and empirical work and explore emerging phenomena and novel research areas, especially in the physical mechanisms, which merit further development. Such papers would not only clearly explain the importance and impact of the phenomena or research area for the climate change field, but also describe the critical prospects for future research. Such papers may also support some ways to extend researches on adaptation strategies of ecosystems to climate change. All in all, we envisage a Research Topic that can not only review the prior studies but also redirect research within influencing physical mechanisms of climate warming on ecology and meteorology.
Keywords: climate dynamics, physical mechanism, climate change, theory and method of prediction, feedback
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