Dear Colleagues,

In the last few decades, human activities have altered the components of the atmosphere and led to climate change. Climate change has directly affected the earth's ecosystems and adversely impacted socioeconomic and environmental conditions. Many of the observed climatic changes are unprecedented and have serious negative consequences for ecosystems and humanity, such as species distributions, marine ecosystems, biodiversity, cities and urbanization, Agro-ecosystems, food security, human health, etc.

The purpose of this section on climate change is to collect research and review papers on advances in geospatial technology tools related to climate change and model simulation, data- and process-based climate change assessment, and remotely sensed data-based climate indices for monitoring extreme weather events (drought and flood), future projections of extreme weather events, and potential mitigation strategies.

We expect to gain more insights into climate change to adequately predict extreme weather events at different time scales and in different ecosystems, assessment relationships with large-scale climate patterns, and complex land–atmosphere feedback mechanisms. Related influences on ecosystems, an assessment of the consequences, future forecasting and scenarios, climate change management, and human adaptation measures at the regional and national level for a sustainable ecosystem are also among the topics expected to be included in this section.

We are calling for research submissions concerning, but not limited to, the above subjects. Papers that may contribute to a better understanding of climate change and ecosystems' hydro-meteorological, agricultural, and socioeconomic consequences are invited.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Karam Alsafadi

Section Editor