Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2020.

Dear Colleagues,

Indexes are a well-known tool and have proven fundamental in the discovery and understanding of global teleconnection patterns (e.g., El-Nino, Atlantic Oscillations, Indian Ocean Dipole, Arctic Oscillations). Many more Indexes have been used to calculate the length of dry/wet spell, heat degrees, comfort, and mood of a person. A number of Indexes have been used in the literature to define the monsoon, soil moisture, teleconnections, and other climate–weather issues. Most of the Indexes are based on air temperature, precipitation, air pressure, and sea surface temperature. However, very few such Indexes are utilized for future datasets. For future projection dataset and special simulations, those may need modifications or may lead to new discoveries. Futuristic datasets will provide new opportunities to define some new Indexes for climate change. High-resolution modeling has brought many new variables to analyze the weather and climate. Those new variables (cloud mixing ratio, buoyancy, etc.) can be utilized to define new Indexes. The new fields, e.g., thunderstorm, cloud physics, hydrology, aerosol science, ice melt, and biosphere, have a great impact on climate change. Appropriate Indexes can be put together to access and analyze the climate change and global warning issue. New insights based on new Indexes, themselves in turn based on new advances and variables, can provide new dimensions to the climate change science. Multidisciplinary disciplines may join to access climate change using Indexes from their filed.

Dr. Vinay Kumar
Guest Editor