Climate Change and Its Impacts in the United States
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 485
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Interests: climate change; earth system models; machine learning; uncertainty quantification
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Interests: climate change, downscaling, uncertainty, applied climatology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global climate system is changing, and we are witnessing intensifying weather events as we move into a warmer world. Specifically for the US, different regions are experiencing impacts from climate change in different ways. In the southwest, droughts are seemingly becoming longer and more intense. In the northwest, the frequency and duration of wildfires are breaking records. In the east, more hurricanes are strengthening with rapid intensification, leaving very little time to prepare for landfall. These are just some examples of climate change and its impacts in the US. Furthermore, some communities and demographics are feeling the damaging effects of climate change more than others.
Various international and national climate assessments have been released, such as the Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR6) or the Fifth National Climate Assessment of the United States Government (US NCA5). These efforts are the preeminent reports on climate change impacts, risks, and responses on regional and global scales. Future assessment reports will rely on and utilize the climate research that is currently being conducted.
This issue in Atmosphere invites submissions that highlight climate change and its impacts in the United States. Studies can range from a local to regional or continental scale and can either represent historical climate or future projections. A few examples of potential study topics are how climate can impact hydrology, energy, agriculture, ecosystems, health, or social systems. Potential submissions can include results from Earth System Models or Regional Climate Models, observations such as in situ measurement networks or remotely sensed satellite data, or techniques like model–data fusion and machine learning.
We look forward to receiving your submitted manuscript.
Dr. Elias C. Massoud
Dr. Adrienne Wootten
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- United States
- impacts
- society
- models
- data
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