Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Models

Dear colleagues,

Climate and anthropogenic global change are processes occurring within our atmosphere, deeply influenced by the oceans. The lower atmosphere is strictly influenced by the surface oceans and by the exchange of mass, momentum, heat, and other physical and biogeochemical properties between the two, and by the ocean heat content stored in the water column. Oceans, in turn, are affected by climate change with salinification, warming, and acidification as main actors of this change. Atmosphere and ocean interact with each other through the interface, and a crucial role is also played by sea waves, which are an accomplice of mixing phenomena and energy input in the water, as well as the variation of the surface friction in the atmosphere.

In this context, and considering the complexity of the argument, it is easy to understand that modeling tools, especially the coupled ones, are of paramount relevance to understand and possibly predict how these air–sea exchanges may interact and influence future changes. Perhaps, then, it will be easier to mitigate the impact of such changes.

Thus, the present Special Issue is open to all modeling-based studies dealing with air–sea interactions. Potential topics include but are not limited to, for instance: new modeling techniques, data assimilation, technical papers on modeling and coupling, new parameterizations of processes, model validation papers, regional applications, seasonal and climatological coupled approach, extreme events in atmosphere and ocean, sea level rise, biological impacts, risk assessment, impact of coupling on hydrological and forecast systems, physics of air–sea interactions, sea-ice studies, ice melting, etc.

Dr. Antonio Olita
Dr. Antonio Ricchi
Dr. Umberto Rizza
Guest Editors

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