Climate Dynamics

Climate Dynamics is a peer-reviewed journal in the Earth sciences published by Springer (Germany). Founded in 1986 and issued monthly, it carries the subtitle Observational, Theoretical and Computational Research on the Climate System. The journal concerns the dynamics of the coupled climate system, including interactions among the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, biomass and land surface, with a 2025 impact factor of 4.0 and a five-year impact factor of 4.6.Climate Dynamics（气候动力学）是施普林格（德国）出版的地学领域同行评审期刊，创刊于 1986 年，按月出版，副题是「全球气候系统的观测、理论与计算研究」。该刊关注耦合气候系统的动力学机制，涵盖大气、海洋、冰冻圈、生物量与陆面等分量之间的相互作用，2025 年影响因子为 4.0，五年期影响因子为 4.6。^[1]

Scope

• The journal publishes high-quality original research that advances understanding of the dynamics of the coupled climate system, focusing on the physical and biophysical processes and interactions that govern climate variability and change across timescales from intraseasonal to centennial and longer. Observational, paleoclimatic, theoretical, diagnostic and numerical modeling studies are all welcome.期刊定位为推进耦合气候系统动力学理解的原创研究阵地，关注从季内到百年乃至更长尺度上支配气候变率与变化的物理与生物物理过程及其交互作用；观测研究、古气候重建、理论分析、诊断分析与数值模拟均在收稿之列。*
• Mechanistic explanation is the primary selection criterion. Manuscripts need to identify and explain the dynamical mechanisms underlying the climate state and its variability and change, including teleconnections, decadal predictability, regime behaviour and tipping points, and climate sensitivity.机制解释是选稿的首要标准，稿件需要识别并阐明气候状态及其变率与变化背后的动力机制，具体涵盖遥相关机制、年代际可预报性、气候态的突变行为与临界翻转点，以及气候敏感度。*
• Submissions should clarify the physical and biophysical interactions among the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, land surface and biosphere that shape large-scale climate structure and evolution, considering coupling with biogeochemical processes.投稿应澄清大气、海洋、冰冻圈、陆面与生物圈之间的物理及生物物理交互，说明这些交互如何塑造大尺度气候结构与演化，并顾及与生物地球化学过程的耦合关系。^[2]
• The journal encourages work advancing understanding of predictability, feedback processes and dynamical constraints on internal variability and externally forced change, and welcomes the diagnosis and interpretation of climate model behaviour, including systematic biases, inter-model spread and physically based constraints on projections.期刊鼓励推进对可预报性、反馈过程以及内蕴变率与外源强迫变化之动力学约束的研究，也欢迎诊断和解释气候模式行为的工作，例如系统性偏差、模式间离散度以及基于物理的投影约束。*
• Regional and basin-scale studies are considered when they illuminate underlying dynamical mechanisms or reveal how large-scale climate dynamics manifest at smaller scales. Studies employing machine learning or other data-driven methods are considered when they provide clear physical insight.区域与海盆尺度研究在能够阐明底层动力机制或揭示大尺度动力学在较小尺度上的表现形式时同样被考虑；使用机器学习等数据驱动方法的稿件，只有在提供明确物理洞见时才被接受。*

这些限定条件共同划定了该刊的边界，也解释了它在机器学习冲击下仍能维持清晰身份的原因。纯粹比较算法精度的稿件被明确排除在外，意味着作者必须把方法层面的新颖性重新表述为气候动力学的因果论证。这种取向与该刊的学科史相契合：气候动力学关心的不是某个数据集上的拟合优度，而是某个机制是否真实存在于耦合系统中。四十余年间，海量气候模式输出与再分析资料的出现本可以把它变成一篇模式评测的刊物，但它坚持把物理诊断放在首位，因此其引用主要来自那些需要引用观测或模拟证据来支撑机制主张的后续研究。

History

• 1986: Founded with W. Lawrence Gates as founding editor, backed by the climate research community around the World Climate Research Programme (Switzerland), and focused on the structure and behaviour of the global climate system.1986 年：创刊，由美国能源部（美国）与世界气候研究计划（瑞士）相关学者推动创办，W. Lawrence Gates 担任创刊主编，聚焦全球气候系统的结构与行为。*
• The 1990s: A profile centred on paleoclimatic reconstruction and climate diagnostic studies took shape, and the journal became a fixed academic outlet for global change research, playing a key role in the scholarly argument over global warming.1990 年代：形成以古气候重建与气候动力学诊断为核心的选题格局，渐成为全球变化研究的固定学术出口，在气候变暖议题的学术论证中承担了关键角色。*
• The 2010s: Influence rose steadily, making it one of the most densely cited titles in meteorology and atmospheric sciences, with an impact factor of 4.375 in 2020 and a high of 4.901 in 2021.2010 年代：影响力稳定上升，成为气象与大气科学类别中被引最密集的刊物之一，2020 年影响因子为 4.375，2021 年一度达到 4.901。*
• 2023: The journal returned to the Editorial Manager online submission and review system on 22 February 2023, having previously moved away from it.2023 年：自 2023 年 2 月 22 日起重新启用 Editorial Manager 网上投稿与审稿系统，此前曾短暂迁移。*
• 2026: The aims and scope were revised and reissued, making mechanistic explanation and physical insight explicit criteria for acceptance rather than rejection, while monthly and online-first publication continued, with a 2025 impact factor of 4.0.2026 年：修订并重新发布选题范围，把机制解释与物理洞见确立为区分收稿与退稿的明确界线，同时继续以月刊和在线优先方式发行，2025 年影响因子为 4.0。*

Editors

该刊不设单一主编，而是采用执行编辑集体负责制，这是大型地学综合性期刊应对选题跨度的常见安排。气候动力学横跨古气候学、海洋学、大气科学、冰冻圈科学与陆地过程，任何一位学者都无法通晓全部方向，因此选稿初判由分布于不同国家的执行编辑并行完成，再交由编委会把关。这一建制也与该刊的国际投稿结构相匹配。

• Executive editors: The current executive editors are Susanna Corti of the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences at the National Research Council (Italy), Jean-Claude Duplessy of the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences (France), V. Krishnamurthy of the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies at George Mason University (USA), Jianping Li of the Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography at the Ocean University of China (China), Jian Lu of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (USA) and Zhaohua Wu of Florida State University (USA).执行编辑：现任执行编辑包括 Susanna Corti（意大利国家研究委员会（意大利）大气与气候科学研究所）、Jean-Claude Duplessy（法国气候与环境科学实验室）、V. Krishnamurthy（乔治梅森大学（美国）海洋陆面大气研究中心）、Jianping Li（中国海洋大学（中国）物理海洋学重点实验室）、Jian Lu（西北太平洋国家实验室（美国））、Zhaohua Wu（佛罗里达州立大学（美国））。*
• A changing roster: Other versions of the journal site also list Kyung-Ja Ha, Lantao Sun and Ken Takahashi Guevara as executive editors. Lantao Sun has served since June 2024 and has been an associate editor of Journal of Climate.更替中的名单：官网在不同版本中还列出了 Kyung-Ja Ha、Lantao Sun 与 Ken Takahashi Guevara 等执行编辑，其中 Lantao Sun 自 2024 年 6 月起在任，并曾兼任《Journal of Climate》的副主编。*
• Editorial board: Board members come from institutions including the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), Lund University (Sweden), the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (Germany), the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Germany), the University of Bern (Switzerland), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), the University of Victoria (Canada), the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), Pennsylvania State University (USA), Texas A&M University (USA), Princeton University (USA), Macquarie University (Australia), the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (Japan), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) and the University of Colorado Boulder (USA).正式编委：编委成员来自多国机构，包括鲁汶天主教大学（比利时）、隆德大学（瑞典）、马克斯·普朗克气象研究所（德国）、马克斯·普朗克化学研究所（德国）、伯尔尼大学（瑞士）、法国国家科学研究中心（法国）、不列颠哥伦比亚大学（加拿大）、威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校（美国）、宾夕法尼亚州立大学（美国）、得克萨斯大学农业与机械学院（美国）、普林斯顿大学（美国）、马克里基大学（澳大利亚）、日本海洋地球科学技术研究所（日本）、中国科学院（中国）与科罗拉多大学博尔德分校（美国）。*
• Complete roster: The full list of current executive editors and board members with their affiliations is given on the journal's editorial board page, which is updated as each volume appears.完整名单：现任执行编辑与编委的完整名单及其所属机构，以期刊官网的编辑页面为准，该名单按卷次滚动更新。*