Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology is an international journal dedicated to advancing the science of land-atmosphere interactions across agriculture, forests and other terrestrial systems (e.g. wetlands, tundra, urban environments). Manuscripts considered by Agricultural and Forest Meteorology for publication must include both of the following:

• Strong atmospheric components such as meteorological, micrometeorological, or climate-related processes

• Demonstrate how these atmospheric processes interact with the terrestrial surface

The journal’s scope includes research that applies micrometeorological theory, develops and evaluates novel instrumentation (e.g., sensors for trace gas measurements, flux measurement systems, radiation instrumentation), advances remote- and proximal-sensing approaches (e.g. satellite observations, UAV-based sensors), or employs models that represent land-atmosphere interactions (e.g. soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer models, data-fusion frameworks and physically guided machine learning models). These tools and approaches are applied to address research questions in the following areas:

• Energy, momentum, mass and trace gas exchange between ecosystems and the atmosphere, including their role in biogeochemical cycles (e.g. carbon, nitrogen) and water cycles (e.g. evapotranspiration)

• Ecosystem phenology and physiology

• Radiative transfer, water interception, turbulence and microclimate in vegetation canopies

• Aerobiology (e.g. the dispersion of pollen, spores, microorganisms, insects and pesticides)

• Impacts of climate variability and climate change on land-atmosphere interactions

• Impact of land use, land use change, and disturbances such as fire on land-atmosphere interactions

• Regional and global land-atmosphere feedbacks

The following submissions are discouraged:

• Studies that do not focus on the inter-relationship of concepts in meteorology and ecosystems

• Studies reporting on climate trends without consideration of the impacts of such trends on ecosystems

• Dendrochronology and climate reconstruction studies that do not relate to land-atmosphere interactions

• Remote sensing studies that report solely on methodology or on vegetation trends such as greening

• Soil or plant focused studies that merely report weather or climate variables without investigating land-atmosphere interactions

• Soil microbial ecology studies

• Studies of the effects of management practices (e.g. mulching), soil processes or soil properties on respiration or greenhouse gas fluxes, without a strong atmospheric component

• Studies of plant physiology, chemistry or genetics, without a strong atmospheric component

• Hydrological studies that are not primarily concerned with water vapour transfer to or from the atmosphere

• Studies of potential evaporation that do not also consider actual evaporation

• Studies conducted exclusively in controlled environments (e.g. growth chambers, incubators, wind tunnels, greenhouses)

• Design, technology and operation of greenhouses or other plant-growing facilities

• Studies based on data products or theoretical modelling studies that do not test model predictions against experimental data except for very novel models that target processes for which measurements are not yet possible

• Machine-learning studies that are limited in their results to a specific geographic region, without novel methodology or novel physical understanding

Note that solely considering climate variables such as air temperature, precipitation etc., does not constitute the study of land-atmosphere interactions and as such are discouraged.

All submissions will only be considered for publication if they clearly advance knowledge on land-atmosphere interactions or propose novel methods to study these interactions.