Understanding the Weather Types and Rainfall and Its Relation with Erosion
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Meteorology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 May 2020) | Viewed by 13211
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Interests: rainfall characterization; measurements of rainfall; rainfall simulators; disdrometers; splash erosion; karstification; impacts of water on construction; fluid dynamics engineering; erosion; weather types
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Dear Colleagues,
Currently, the study of weather types has many applications, from its classical application in meteorological studies about current events or future scenarios to other more novelty uses, like description of the dispersion of pollutants, the evolution of forest fires or, more recently, their influence on soil erosion. The improvement of geographic information systems allow us to use available high-quality satellite images to assess erosion by crossing field data of erosion under different atmospheric conditions. However, despite the emerging capacities and clear interest in automating the erosive capacity of the rain, and the promising findings that have been made, it has not yet been possible to properly model erosion. This Special Issue of Atmosphere focuses on how synoptic weather types could be applied to rainfall and erosion. We seek research studies that examine and compare the different classifications of weather types and its applications to erosion. All the classifications are welcomed, using maps or objective criteria like the correlation method, the method of sum of squares, the cluster analysis, and the principal component analysis (PCA). Classic automated methods like Lamb´s which use the characterization of different indices associated with the direction and vorticity of the geostrophic flow of daily circulation will also be welcomed, always focusing on their applications to erosive impacts. We invite manuscripts incorporating field data from natural, burned, sensitive or restored areas. We also wish to include studies that examine uses of weather types in these studies, how to develop or adapt classifications of weather types to different regions, and studies that compare regions or studies which highlight the gaps that science needs to develop in this topic.
Dr. María Fernández-Raga
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Synoptic weather types
- Erosion
- Rainfall characterization
- Runoff
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