Sorry for cross-posting. I would like to bring your attention to a special issue that we are organizing on impacts of disturbances and extreme climate events in Biogeosciences. Guest editors are Drs. Jingfeng Xiao, Shuguang Liu, and Paul Stoy. Our special issue is titled Impacts of Extreme Climate Events and Disturbances on Carbon Dynamics. The URL of the issue is http://www.biogeosciences.net/submission/scheduled_special_issues.html#22. A brief description on the special issue is as follows:
Extreme climate events (e.g., drought, heat and cold waves) and disturbances (e.g., fire, hurricane, and insect outbreaks) substantially affect carbon cycle processes. However, their impacts on terrestrial carbon dynamics over landscapes, regions, and continents are not well understood. We invite submissions that investigate and quantify the impacts of extreme climate events and disturbances on the terrestrial carbon dynamics over various spatial and temporal scales using observations (e.g., eddy covariance flux measurements, and national inventories), remote sensing, state-of-the-art modeling approaches (e.g., ecosystem models, upscaling methods), and model- data fusion techniques. A special issue focusing on this topic will be timely and valuable to the research communities of carbon and global change. Collectively, we believe that this special issue will play a critical role in our understanding of how extreme climate events and disturbances influence the terrestrial carbon cycle and increase the visibility and influences of Biogeosciences in carbon cycle and climate change. Some specific advantages of having the special issue in Biogeosciences are: 1) Publication date is not limited by the latest paper/slowest peer-review process: every individual contribution to the special issue is published as soon as available. 2) Efficient interactive discussion of the common theme on the BGD website. 3) Pre-publication of discussion papers in BGD allows efficient cross-referencing between the final revised papers in BG. You are welcomed to submit your high-quality manuscript on impacts of disturbances and/or extreme climate events to our special issue. Submission is now open, and will close by September 30, 2013. Just let me know if you have any questions. Best wishes, Jingfeng -- Jingfeng Xiao, PhD Research Assistant Professor Earth Systems Research Center (formerly Complex Systems Research Center) Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space University of New Hampshire 449 Morse Hall, 8 College Road Durham, NH 03824 Email: [email protected] http://www.eos.sr.unh.edu/Faculty/Xiao http://pubpages.unh.edu/~jqs5/ Tel: (603) 862-1873; Fax: (603) 862-0188 Science Definition Team member of NASA's Carbon Monitoring System (CMS): http://carbon.nasa.gov
