Journal of Hydrometeorology

Journal of Hydrometeorology (commonly abbreviated as J. Hydrometeorol.) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Meteorological Society. It carries research on the modelling, observing and forecasting of processes related to water and energy fluxes and storage, including their interaction with the boundary layer and the lower atmosphere. It was founded in February 2000 and the 2025 impact factor is 3.3.Journal of Hydrometeorology（常用缩写 J. Hydrometeorol.）是美国气象学会出版的同行评审期刊，刊载与水分和能量的通量及储存项有关的建模、观测与预报研究，涉及这些过程与边界层和低层大气的相互作用，2000 年 2 月创刊，2025 年影响因子为 3.3。^[1]

Scope

The journal's statement of purpose has been unchanged since the inaugural issue. It seeks to publish research related to the modelling, observing and forecasting of processes tied to water and energy fluxes and storage terms, including their interactions with the boundary layer and the lower atmosphere, and including processes related to precipitation, radiation and other meteorological inputs.该刊的宗旨声明自创刊首期沿用至今，要发表的是与水分和能量通量及储存项的建模、观测和预报有关的研究，涵盖这些过程与边界层、低层大气的相互作用，以及与降水、辐射和其他气象输入项有关的物理过程。

• Scope of inclusion: any study bearing on processes that affect water and energy budgets at the surface or in the lower atmosphere qualifies. The journal therefore sets no subject boundaries of its own but occupies the deliberately drawn overlap between hydrology and meteorology.选题边界：只要研究涉及影响地表或低层大气中水分与能量收支的过程即符合范围，因此该刊并不按学科设限，而是横跨水文学与气象学之间刻意划出的交叉地带。*
• Research methods: field experiments, remote sensing, numerical modelling, data assimilation and machine learning are all accepted as primary approaches, and manuscripts are not favoured or penalised on the basis of which technique route they take.研究手段：外场试验、遥感观测、数值模拟、资料同化与机器学习都可作为主要方法，稿件不因采用何种技术路线而受偏好。*
• Article types: research articles are limited to 7500 words of body text, and any excess requires justification at submission and the Chief Editor's approval. The journal also accepts reviews, data technical articles, comment and reply exchanges, and corrigenda, with data technical articles required to rest on a dataset already made openly available to the public.稿型设置：常规论文正文不超过 7500 字，超出需在投稿时说明理由并取得主编同意；此外设有综述、数据技术论文、评论与回复、更正等体裁，其中数据技术论文要求所依托的数据集已向公众开放。*
• Open access policy: the journal is hybrid, with all articles becoming freely available to the public one year after final publication. Authors may pay to make a paper open on publication, while authors at institutions holding a read-and-publish agreement with the Society automatically receive immediate open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.开放获取政策：属混合开放获取模式，全部文章在正式出版满一年后免费向公众开放；作者可选择在投稿时付费使论文发表即开放，与学会签有读写出版协议的机构作者则自动获得即时开放并适用知识共享署名 4.0 协议。*

History

• Late 1990s: Society president Gene Rasmusson and hydrology committee chair Eric Wood pushed for a dedicated hydrology journal. Dennis Lettenmaier was invited to serve as the first Chief Editor, taking the post in late 1998, a little over a year before the first issue appeared.1990 年代后期：学会主席 Gene Rasmusson 与水文委员会主席 Eric Wood 推动增设一份专门讨论水文的刊物，Dennis Lettenmaier 应邀出任首任主编，其任期自 1998 年末开始，比首期出版早了一年有余。*
• February 2000: the journal published its first issue. In the accompanying editorial the founding Chief Editor recorded fifty submissions in the opening year amounting to 554 published pages, slightly above the eighty-page minimum per issue required by the production process.2000 年 2 月：创刊并出版首期，创刊主编在社论中说明第一年共收到 50 篇稿件、刊出 554 页，稍高于出版流程所要求的每期 80 页下限。*
• The 2000s: the Chief Editor role passed from Dennis Lettenmaier to Bill Kustas and then through Ana Barros and Christa Peters-Lidard. Over the same period the journal completed its shift to fully electronic submission and review, which shortened the review cycle and removed the geographic location of authors and reviewers as a practical constraint.2000 年代：主编职位先后由 Dennis Lettenmaier 交给 Bill Kustas，再经 Ana Barros 与 Christa Peters-Lidard 传递，同期完成向电子投稿与电子评审的过渡，评审周期明显缩短，作者与评审的地理位置不再构成限制。*
• 2019 to present: Wade T. Crow took over as Chief Editor in early 2019 and marked the journal's twentieth anniversary with a retrospective, noting 223 submissions and 115 papers published in 2018, and observing that the statement of purpose set at the founding issue has remained unchanged.2019 年至今：Wade T. Crow 于 2019 年初接任主编，并在创刊二十周年时撰文回顾，称该刊在 2018 年收到 223 篇投稿、刊出 115 篇论文，创刊时的宗旨声明始终未作改动。*
• Recent years: after reaching 4.871 in 2021 the impact factor fell back into the 3-point range, ranking twelfth of eighty-six journals in the meteorology and atmospheric science category in 2018, and standing at 3.3 in 2025.近年：影响因子在 2021 年达到 4.871 之后回落至 3 分区间，2018 年在气象与大气科学类别 86 种期刊中列第 12 位，2025 年为 3.3。*

Editors

The journal follows the layered structure common to Society titles: a Chief Editor makes decisions, supported by seven Editors and several dozen Associate Editors, most of whom come from observing and modelling institutions directly relevant to hydrometeorology, with dedicated staff assisting the peer review process.该刊采用学会期刊通行的层级结构：一位主编负责决策，其下设七名责任编辑与数十名副主编，副主编多来自与水文气象直接相关的观测与模式机构，另有专门人员协助处理评审流程。

• Chief Editor: the current Chief Editor is Viviana Maggioni of Politecnico di Milano. The post has previously been held by Dennis Lettenmaier, Bill Kustas, Ana Barros, Christa Peters-Lidard and Wade T. Crow.主编：现任主编为 Viviana Maggioni，就任于米兰理工大学；这一职位在创刊后依次由 Dennis Lettenmaier、Bill Kustas、Ana Barros、Christa Peters-Lidard 与 Wade T. Crow 担任。*
• Editors: the seven Editors come from the NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Michigan State University, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the University of Maryland Baltimore County and the University of Texas at Arlington.责任编辑：七名责任编辑分别来自美国国家海洋和大气管理局物理科学实验室、明尼苏达大学双城分校、太平洋西北国家实验室、密歇根州立大学、美国国家航空航天局戈达德航天中心、马里兰大学巴尔的摩县分校以及得克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校。*
• Associate Editors: more than thirty Associate Editors serve, drawn from institutions including the University of Arizona, the University of Colorado Boulder, Oregon State University, KU Leuven in Belgium, Université de Toulouse in France, the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.副主编分布：副编委规模逾三十人，机构涵盖亚利桑那大学、科罗拉多大学博尔德分校、俄勒冈州立大学、比利时鲁汶大学、法国图卢兹第三大学、中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所、中山大学、联合国粮农组织等。*
• Submission system: manuscripts go through the Society's unified online system, review articles require a prior proposal, and comments must be submitted within two years of the article being commented on. The journal's stated target is a first decision within ten weeks.投稿系统：稿件通过学会统一的在线系统提交，综述类稿件需事先提交选题提案，评论与回复须在被评论文章发表后两年内完成，期刊目标是将首次决定控制在十周以内。^[2]