npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science is a fully open-access journal published by Springer Nature in partnership with the Center of Excellence for Climate Change Research at King Abdulaziz University, launched in 2018 and covering the physical chemical and biological components of the climate and atmospheric sciences, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 9.6《气候与大气科学》（npj Climate and Atmospheric Science）是施普林格·自然（Springer Nature）与阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王大学（King Abdulaziz University）气候变化研究卓越中心合作出版的完全开放获取期刊，2018 年创刊，覆盖气候与大气科学的物理、化学与生物组成部分，2025 年影响因子为 9.6。

Scope

• The journal considers research that explores all aspects of the physical, chemical and biological components of the climate and atmospheric sciences该刊受理探索气候与大气科学物理、化学与生物各组成部分的研究。
• Covered topics include climate dynamics and variability along with weather forecasting and climate prediction覆盖议题包括气候动力学与变率，以及天气预报与气候预测。
• It also covers climate change and paleoclimate including the cryosphere, ocean dynamics and dynamical meteorology亦涵盖气候变化与古气候，包括冰冻圈、海洋动力学与动力气象学。
• Further topics are weather extremes, air pollution and atmospheric chemistry and physics including aerosols其他议题还有极端天气、空气污染，以及包含气溶胶在内的大气化学与物理。
• The hydrological cycle and atmosphere-ocean and atmosphere-land interactions including vegetation fall within its scope水分循环，以及大气与海洋、大气与陆地（包括植被）的相互作用，均属其范围。
• It welcomes the use of advanced numerical methods such as machine learning and artificial intelligence applied to weather, climate and air quality prediction该刊欢迎将机器学习与人工智能等先进数值方法应用于天气、气候与空气质量预测。

History

• The journal was announced in 2016 by Springer Nature and King Abdulaziz University, and its first volume appeared in 2018该刊由施普林格·自然（Springer Nature）与阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王大学（King Abdulaziz University）于 2016 年宣布创办，第一卷于 2018 年问世。
• It is published by Springer Nature in partnership with the Center of Excellence for Climate Change Research and is part of the online-only npj Series of open access journals该刊由施普林格·自然（Springer Nature）与气候变化研究卓越中心合作出版，属仅在线出版的（npj Series）开放获取期刊系列。
• It is fully open access under a Creative Commons Attribution license and levies an article processing charge to allow immediate global access该刊采用知识共享署名许可（CC BY）的完全开放获取模式，并收取文章处理费以实现全球即时访问。
• The DOI registry counts 1544 articles for the journal, the earliest issued in 2018（DOI）注册机构为该刊计得 1544 篇文章，最早发表于 2018 年。
• Its impact factor moved from 8.624 in 2021 and 9.448 in 2022 to 8.4 in 2024 and 9.6 in 2025其影响因子由 2021 年的 8.624 与 2022 年的 9.448，到 2024 年的 8.4 与 2025 年的 9.6。
• A widely cited early article reported dramatic declines in snowpack in the western United States其早期一篇被广泛引用的文章，报道了美国西部积雪的显著下降。^[1]

Editors

• Qiang Zhang, PhD, is the editor-in-chief, a professor in the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences（Qiang Zhang）博士任主编，为中国北京清华大学（Tsinghua University）地球系统科学系教授，并为中国科学院院士。
• His research quantifies emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants and investigates mitigation pathways, and he developed the Multi-resolution Emission Inventory for China其研究量化温室气体与大气污染物排放并探究减排路径，他开发了中国多尺度排放清单（MEIC）。
• Georgios Grivas, PhD, is a deputy editor based at the National Observatory of Athens in Greece, working on urban air quality and aerosol source apportionment（Georgios Grivas）博士任副主编，任职于希腊雅典国家天文台（National Observatory of Athens），研究城市空气质量与气溶胶源解析。
• Deputy editors also include Jane Liu of the University of Toronto and Christine Shields of the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research副主编还包括多伦多大学（University of Toronto）的（Jane Liu）与美国国家大气研究中心（NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research）的（Christine Shields）。
• Weixin Xu of Sun Yat-sen University and Lei Zhou of Shanghai Jiao Tong University serve as deputy editors for tropical meteorology and tropical ocean-atmosphere interactions中山大学（Sun Yat-sen University）的（Weixin Xu）与上海交通大学（Shanghai Jiao Tong University）的（Lei Zhou）任副主编，分别聚焦热带气象学与热带海气相互作用。
• Associate editors span the field, including Adeyemi Adebiyi of the University of California Merced, Celia Alves of the University of Aveiro and Rossella Arcucci of Imperial College London副编辑遍布该领域，包括加州大学默塞德分校（University of California Merced）的（Adeyemi Adebiyi）、阿威罗大学（University of Aveiro）的（Celia Alves）与伦敦帝国理工学院（Imperial College London）的（Rossella Arcucci）。