Svalbard Meteorology
1Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Thormohlensgt 47, 5006 Bergen, Norway
2Department of Climatology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 87-100 Torun, Poland
3Obukhov Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow 119017, Russia
4Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima (ISAC), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Via Fosso del Cavaliere, 100, 00133 Roma, Italy
5The University Center in Svalbard, 9171 Longyearbyen, Norway
Svalbard Meteorology
Description
The Svalbard (Spitsbergen) archipelago is one of the most remote places on the Earth with unique climate shaped by continuous fight between open water of the North Atlantic Ocean and Arctic sea ice just one thousand kilometers from the North Pole. This inhospitable land and waters witness tremendous climate change and, therefore, attract considerable attention of the international research community. In recent decades, more and more research activities are conducted on Svalbard. Among them is the international research station situated at Ny-Ålesund (78°55' N, 11°56' E). The station is operated by about 150 Norwegian, German, Japanese, Italian, French, and the UK researchers and open for researchers of other nations. This station is included into the International Arctic System for Observing the Atmosphere (http://iasoa.org/). The University Center in Svalbard (UNIS) is the world's northernmost institution for higher education and research, which is located at Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen, at 78°N. The research on Svalbard is complemented by a number of expeditions on ships and ice camps, which help create a broader outlook at this key region. After the International Polar Year, there has been a critical amount of high-quality research, new data, and analysis in meteorology which are important to open to the international research community. These developments have motivated this call for papers to a special issue of Advances in Meteorology journal devoted to the Svalbard meteorology. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- History of polar meteorology and climate research including the presentation of historical data sets and the historical changes of the Svalbard surface morphology
- Meteorological observations, field campaigns and instruments, satellite products, and paleoclimate proxy data including their processing into climate-quality data records
- Theory and modeling of polar meteorology, polar, katabatic flow, clouds, fog and haze, and precipitation and radiation processes
- Polar air quality and aerosol transport including changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere
- Planetary boundary layer meteorology and air-sea-ice interaction in high latitudes including ice physics and dynamics
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