Atmospheric Science Letters

Atmospheric Science Letters is the letters journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, issued by Wiley, and it has carried short research on the atmosphere and climate since 2000. Papers rest on observations, on modelling or on novel methodologies such as machine learning, and the whole contribution is held to 3,500 words. The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4, with a CiteScore of 4.4.《大气科学快报》是皇家气象学会（Royal Meteorological Society）旗下的短篇研究期刊，由 Wiley 出版，2000 年创刊，专收大气与气候领域的论文。每篇稿件或依据观测，或借助模式，或采用机器学习一类的新方法，全文限制在 3500 词。2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，CiteScore 为 4.4。

Scope

• The remit is research that advances understanding of atmospheric and climate science, and the editors keep the field wide rather than narrow.刊物的取材范围是推进大气与气候科学认识的研究，编辑部把学科口径放得很宽。

• Such work may rest on observations, on modelling or on novel methodologies, and machine learning is named among the latter.这类工作可以建立在观测之上，也可以出自模式试验，或采用机器学习一类的新方法。

• Nine themes define that width, beginning with atmospheric and climate dynamics, climate variability and its impacts, and ocean-atmosphere coupling.九个主题划定了这一口径，开头三项是大气与气候动力学、气候变率与影响以及海气耦合。

• Weather and climate prediction, atmospheric physics, and applications of observational techniques and remote sensing stand in the middle.中段是天气预报与气候预测、大气物理以及观测技术与遥感的应用。

• Atmosphere-land interactions, weather and climate extremes, and air quality and pollution complete the nine.最后三项为陆气相互作用、天气与气候极端事件以及空气质量与污染。

• Each contribution is capped at 3,500 words, while figures and tables carry no fixed ceiling at all.每篇稿件以 3500 词为上限，图与表则不设固定数量。

• Only two manuscript types are accepted, research articles and perspective papers, and shorter notices have no route into the review stream.接收的体裁只有研究论文与前瞻性论文两类，短讯一类不进评审流程。

• All published articles pass through full peer review, which the editors describe as swifter than the process at longer-form journals.所有刊出的文章都经过完整同行评审，编辑部称这一流程比篇幅更长的期刊更快。

• A first decision arrives about 45 days after initial peer review, and accepted papers take roughly 120 days from submission to acceptance.首轮意见约在初审后 45 天给出，被接受的稿件从投稿到录用大约需要 120 天。

• Highly specialized or technical methodological research, which a broad multidisciplinary readership cannot follow, falls outside the remit.面向狭窄领域的技术方法研究若不便于跨学科读者理解，便不在取材范围之内。

• Local or regional case studies are also excluded unless the authors show why the findings are timely and significant beyond the study area.局地或区域个例研究同样不收，除非作者能说明结果在样区之外同样及时而重要。

• Work of either kind is steered towards Meteorological Applications and Weather, two further titles of the society.这两类稿件会被引向学会旗下的另外两家刊物，即 Meteorological Applications 与 Weather。

• Editors may also move a manuscript, without prejudice, to whichever journal in the society's portfolio fits it better.编辑也可以在不存偏见的前提下，把稿件转到学会刊群中更合适的一家。

History

• Volume 27 runs through 2026, which places the first volume in 2000 and confirms a single volume for every year since.第 27 卷对应 2026 年，据此上推，创刊卷落在 2000 年，此后每年一卷。

• The earliest imprint was Academic Press in London, and the current one is Wiley in Hoboken, New Jersey.最早的出版方记为伦敦的 Academic Press，现在是新泽西州霍博肯的 Wiley。

• The masthead reads A Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, and Wiley issues it on the society's behalf.刊头写的是皇家气象学会会刊，由 Wiley 代表学会出版。

• One ISSN, 1530-261X, serves the printed and the online edition alike, and Crossref records the identical number twice.印本与网络版共用一个 ISSN，即 1530-261X，Crossref 把同一个号码登记了两次。

• Twelve issues appear each year, numbered 1 to 12, a rhythm Crossref confirms across volumes 22 to 26.每年出版 12 期，编号从 1 到 12，Crossref 在第 22 卷至第 26 卷上都记录了这样的节奏。

• The newest issue on the site is volume 27, issue 10, dated October 2026.刊站上最新的一期是第 27 卷第 10 期，标注 2026 年 10 月。

• Since January 2016 every accepted article has appeared under full open access.自 2016 年 1 月起，被接受的稿件全部以完全开放获取形式刊出。

• The licence is CC BY without exception, so reuse is permitted once the source is credited.许可一律为 CC BY，标明出处之后即可再利用。

• Charges are quoted at 2,940 US dollars, 1,960 pounds or 2,310 euros, and members of the society pay 20 per cent less.费用标价为 2940 美元、1960 英镑或 2310 欧元，学会会员减收两成。

• Material published before 2016 remains free to read, though copyright is retained and no open licence applies to it.2016 年之前发表的内容仍可免费阅读，但版权保留，不适用开放许可。

• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4 and the five-year value 2.7, with the Journal Citation Reports placing the title 79th of 114 in Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, in the third quartile.2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，五年值为 2.7，Journal Citation Reports 把该刊排在气象学与大气科学 114 种期刊中的第 79 位，属第三四分位。

• The Journal Citation Indicator is 0.53 at the 31.1 percentile, drawn from 2,158 citations and 46 articles a year, with a cited half-life of 7.9 years and gold open access at 100 per cent.期刊引文指标为 0.53，百分位 31.1，总被引 2158 次，年发文 46 篇，被引半衰期 7.9 年，金色开放获取占比百分之百。

• The metrics page adds a CiteScore of 4.4 for 2025, 196,349 full-text views, 45 articles a year and an acceptance rate of 49 per cent.指标页另记 2025 年 CiteScore 为 4.4，全文浏览量 196349 次，年发文 45 篇，接收率 49%。

• Authors come mainly from China at 42 per cent, followed by the United Kingdom at 20, Japan at 11, Germany at 7 and the United States at 4.作者以中国最多，占 42%，其后是英国 20%、日本 11%、德国 7% 与美国 4%。

• Readers cluster in the United States at 25 per cent, China at 17, India at 8, the United Kingdom at 7 and Japan at 4.读者以美国为首，占 25%，其后是中国 17%、印度 8%、英国 7% 与日本 4%。

• Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus index the title, while DOAJ, CAB Abstracts and GEOBASE sit on the same list, and PubMed covers selected citations only.Science Citation Index Expanded 与 Scopus 收录该刊，DOAJ、CAB Abstracts 与 GEOBASE 同在名单上，PubMed 只做选择性引文收录。

Editors

• Massimo Bollasina holds one of the two editors-in-chief posts, from the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh.主编之一为（Massimo Bollasina），在 University of Edinburgh 的 School of GeoSciences 任职。

• Christopher O'Reilly, in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, shares the post.另一位主编是（Christopher O'Reilly），在 University of Reading 的气象学系任职。

• Twenty-four associate editors work under them, and the 26-strong board spans nine countries.两位主编之下有 24 位副编辑，编委会共 26 人，分布在 9 个国家。

• Britain holds eight seats, among them Ioana Colfescu of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science at St Andrews and Steven Hardiman of the Met Office.英国占 8 席，其中有 St Andrews 的 National Centre for Atmospheric Science 的（Ioana Colfescu）与 Met Office 的（Steven Hardiman）。

• Zhiqiang Cui and Jim McQuaid work at the University of Leeds, Oscar Martínez-Alvarado and Thorwald Stein at the University of Reading, Aneesh Subramanian at Oxford and David Woolf at the Environmental Research Institute of North Highland College.（Zhiqiang Cui）与（Jim McQuaid）在 University of Leeds，（Oscar Martínez-Alvarado）与（Thorwald Stein）在 University of Reading，（Aneesh Subramanian）在 Oxford，（David Woolf）在 North Highland College 的 Environmental Research Institute。

• Six editors come from the United States, including James Booth at the City College of New York, Zachary Labe at Climate Central and Rhys Parfitt at Florida State University.美国有 6 位，包括 City College of New York 的（James Booth）、Climate Central 的（Zachary Labe）与 Florida State University 的（Rhys Parfitt）。

• The remaining American seats go to Arthur Miller in California, Sandip Pal at Texas Tech and Mohammad Valipour at Metropolitan State University of Denver.其余美国席位由加州的（Arthur Miller）、Texas Tech 的（Sandip Pal）与 Metropolitan State University of Denver 的（Mohammad Valipour）担任。

• China holds three posts, Lili Lei at Nanjing University, Chaofan Li at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics and Chao Liu at NUIST.中国占 3 席，为 Nanjing University 的（Lili Lei）、中国科学院大气物理研究所的（Chaofan Li）与 NUIST 的（Chao Liu）。

• Italy supplies Tommaso Diomede of ARPAE Emilia-Romagna and Giuseppe Zappa of CNR-ISAC.意大利的两位是 ARPAE Emilia-Romagna 的（Tommaso Diomede）与 CNR-ISAC 的（Giuseppe Zappa）。

• Single seats belong to Davide Faranda of CNRS and LSCE at Paris-Saclay, Ibrahim Hoteit of KAUST, Ali R. Mohebalhojeh of the University of Tehran, Harald Reider of BOKU and Sabine Undorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.单人席位分属 Paris-Saclay 的 CNRS 与 LSCE 的（Davide Faranda）、KAUST 的（Ibrahim Hoteit）、University of Tehran 的（Ali R. Mohebalhojeh）、BOKU 的（Harald Reider）与 Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 的（Sabine Undorf）。

• Peer review turned double-blind on 3 April 2024, so referees no longer learn who wrote a paper while authors still do not learn who judged it.评审在 2024 年 4 月 3 日改为双盲，审稿人不再知道作者是谁，作者照旧不知道审稿人是谁。

• Authors supply a separate title page carrying names and affiliations, and the main file is anonymised before any referee sees it.作者须另交一份题名页写明姓名与单位，主文件在送到审稿人手中之前完成匿名处理。

• Every manuscript is double-blind peer reviewed, and referees receive 10 per cent off society membership, a recognition certificate and 30 per cent off Wiley books.稿件一律双盲评审，审稿人可获学会会费九折、审稿证书，以及 Wiley 图书七折优惠。

• The society runs a Co-Reviewing scheme alongside an open call for reviewers, both meant to widen the referee pool.学会另设 Co-Reviewing 共同审稿机制，并公开征集审稿人，意在扩大审稿队伍。