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Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions

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Atmosphere-biosphere interactions play a vital role in regulating the exchange of energy, matter, and gases between the Earth’s atmosphere and its terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. These interactions influence weather patterns, climate variability, air quality, and ecosystem services, making them critical to understanding environmental processes at multiple scales. For example, the biosphere can affect atmospheric composition through processes such as photosynthesis, respiration, deposition and biogenic emissions, while the atmosphere can shape ecosystem dynamics through variations in radiation, precipitation, and wind patterns. Understanding these complex interactions is essential for improving weather and climate predictions, mitigating air pollution, adapting to climate change, and guiding ecosystem restoration efforts.

Advancing knowledge in this area requires cutting-edge research that integrates theory, observations, laboratory and field experiments, and modeling approaches. Interdisciplinary studies that combine atmospheric science, ecology, biogeochemistry, and data science are particularly valuable for unraveling the mechanisms driving these interactions. With the growing influence of anthropogenic activities and climate change, there is an urgent need to quantify and predict how atmosphere-biosphere feedbacks will evolve under future scenarios.

We invite Original Research, Reviews, and Perspectives that explore atmosphere-biosphere interactions across diverse temporal and spatial scales. Contributions may address fundamental processes, applied methodologies, or innovative technologies. The themes include, but are not limited to:

  • Mechanisms of soil-vegetation-atmosphere interactions and their roles in energy budget, and in water, carbon, nitrogen and other biogeochemical cycles
  • Impact of surface processes on weather and climate predictions, including land-atmosphere coupling
  • Effects of biogenic emissions and vegetation deposition on air quality
  • The role of atmosphere-biosphere feedbacks in climate change, ecosystem resilience, and adaptation strategies
  • Innovations in process-based and AI-driven modeling of atmosphere-biosphere interactions, including data assimilation and predictive analytics
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