Scaling Land-Atmosphere Interactions: Special or Fundamental?

The highly interactive and variable nature of scales of space and time featured in components of the Earth system imparts enormous complexity to land-atmosphere interactions. Here, we introduce an open special collection on Advances in Scaling and Modeling of Land-Atmosphere Interactions that features articles in JGR: Biogeosciences, JGR: Atmospheres, Journal of Advances in the Modeling of Earth Systems, and Earth & Space Science. Collectively, these articles identify interactions across multiple processes, in field experiments, long-term observations, and numerical simulations, which are then used to advance theories of scale interaction to improve predictive models.

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The highly interactive and variable nature of scales of space and time in land-atmosphere interactions adds significant complexity. This special collection presents articles from various journals that identify interactions across different processes, using field experiments, observations, and simulations to advance theories of scale interaction and improve predictive models.