Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society is the Royal Meteorological Society's flagship research title in the atmospheric sciences, issued on the society's behalf by Wiley from its Chichester office.《皇家气象学会季刊》是英国皇家气象学会在大气科学领域的旗舰研究刊物，由 Wiley 代表学会在奇切斯特出版。

Volume 1 appeared in 1871, which makes it one of the longest-running meteorological journals still in circulation, and the 2025 Journal Impact Factor stands at 3.3 with a five-year value of 8.6.第 1 卷于 1871 年问世，它是仍在出版的最古老气象学期刊之一，2025 年 Journal Impact Factor 为 3.3，五年值 8.6。

The 2025 Journal Citation Reports place it in the second quartile of meteorology and atmospheric sciences at rank 53 of 114, on a cumulative citation count close to 26,500.2025 年版 Journal Citation Reports 把它列在气象与大气科学类 Q2，114 种刊物中排第 53 位，累计被引接近 2.65 万次。

Scope

• Its declared aims are to communicate and to document the results of new research in the atmospheric sciences and in associated fields, a remit unchanged in substance for well over a century.刊物声明的宗旨是传播并记录大气科学及相关领域的新研究结果，这一范围一个多世纪以来在实质上没有变动。
• Applied meteorology and physical oceanography are named alongside the core science, so work on air-sea interaction and on operational forecasting sits comfortably inside the remit.应用气象学与物理海洋学被与核心学科并列写入范围，海气相互作用与业务预报方面的工作因此都在征稿之列。
• Numerical weather prediction supplies a large share of the content, from global model development to the verification of operational forecasts at national centres.数值天气预报构成内容的一大部分，从全球模式发展到各国业务预报中心的预报检验都在其中。
• Data assimilation appears in its many forms, covering variational and ensemble schemes, satellite radiance assimilation and the estimation of background error covariances.资料同化以多种形式出现，涵盖变分方案与集合方案、卫星辐射率同化以及背景误差协方差的估计。
• Dynamical meteorology is treated at a fundamental level, with papers on balanced flow and atmospheric waves, on instability, and on the potential vorticity framework that underpins modern theory.动力气象学按基础层面处理，论文涉及平衡流与大气波动，也涉及不稳定以及支撑现代理论的位涡框架。
• Convection and cloud physics form another standing interest, including cloud-resolving experiments, microphysical parametrization and the organisation of tropical squall lines.对流与云物理是另一个长期方向，包含云分辨尺度试验、微物理参数化以及对热带飑线组织过程的研究。
• Radiative transfer, satellite retrieval and the checking of radiation schemes against measured fluxes recur in the journal's pages across the decades.辐射传输、卫星反演以及用观测通量检验辐射方案，这三类工作数十年来在刊物中反复出现。
• Boundary-layer turbulence and surface exchange are covered in their own right, often in papers that tie flux measurements to closure assumptions in weather and climate models.边界层湍流与地表交换自成一块，相关论文常把通量观测与天气模式和气候模式中的闭合假设联系起来。
• Tropical meteorology has a strong presence, with the Madden-Julian oscillation, monsoon systems and tropical cyclone structure and intensification all represented.热带气象学占有明显分量，Madden-Julian 振荡、季风系统与热带气旋的结构和增强过程都有涉及。
• Climate dynamics and variability enter through work on El Niño, on teleconnection patterns and on the large-scale modes that organise intraseasonal to decadal fluctuations.气候动力学与变率经由厄尔尼诺、遥相关型以及组织季节内到年代际起伏的大尺度模态进入刊物。
• Model development is treated as a research subject in its own right, with attention to parametrization, to resolution sensitivity and to the diagnosis of systematic error.模式发展被当作独立的研究对象，参数化、分辨率敏感性以及系统性误差的诊断都受到关注。
• Predictability and ensemble methods are examined through error growth, through spread-skill relationships and through the design of stochastic perturbations.可预报性与集合方法通过误差增长、离散度与技巧的关系以及随机扰动方案的设计来考察。
• Observational papers draw on field campaigns, on aircraft and radar data and on reanalysis products, usually with an eye to how well the models reproduce what was measured.观测类论文取材于外场试验、飞机与雷达资料以及再分析产品，通常还要看模式对实测结果的再现程度。
• Three contribution types are open to authors, namely full articles, comprehensive review articles and comments on papers already published in the journal.可投的体裁有三类，即完整论文、综合性综述以及对已刊论文的评论。
• Short articles describing minor investigations have also been accepted, a category that keeps small but useful results in the permanent record.描述小型研究的短文同样会被接受，这一类目让规模不大却有价值的成果留在文献记录中。

History

• The first volume is dated 1871, and library catalogues record the early imprint simply as the Royal Meteorological Society, with Reading in Berkshire as the address most often cited.首卷标注的年份是 1871 年，图书馆目录把早期出版者径直记为皇家气象学会，最常引用的地址是伯克郡的雷丁。
• Those opening volumes carried a shorter masthead, the Quarterly Journal of the Meteorological Society, and the word Royal entered the title once the society held its charter, granted in 1883.最初各卷的刊头较短，作 Quarterly Journal of the Meteorological Society，学会于 1883 年获得皇家特许状之后，Royal 一词才进入刊名。
• Continuous volume numbering runs from that first year to the present, so the sequence is unbroken across the change of masthead and across the change of publisher.卷号自那一年起连续编号至今，刊名与出版方的变更都没有打断这一序列。
• For most of the twentieth century the society published the journal itself, and the imprint in Chichester dates only from 2006, when Wiley took over production and distribution.20 世纪的大部分时间里刊物由学会自行出版，奇切斯特的出版地记录始于 2006 年，此后 Wiley 接手制作与发行。
• The name still says quarterly, yet the journal has long appeared eight times a year, with special issues issued on top of the regular numbers.刊名仍写作季刊，实际出版早已是每年 8 期，常规期号之外还另出专辑。
• Access is hybrid, so authors may publish open access on payment of an article processing charge while the subscription edition continues for libraries.刊物采用混合模式，作者付费即可开放获取，订阅版本仍照常向图书馆提供。
• Gold open access accounted for 53.38 per cent of the 2025 output, so more than half the year's papers went out free to read on the day of publication.2025 年发表内容中有 53.38% 走金色开放获取，当年过半数论文在刊出当天即可免费阅读。
• Citations accumulated to 26,481 by the 2025 reporting year, and a cited half-life of 9.5 years reflects a back catalogue that keeps being read.到 2025 年报告年度，累计被引达到 26481 次，9.5 年的被引半衰期说明过刊仍在被持续阅读。
• Clarivate counted 241 articles in the 2025 volume, distributed across the eight regular numbers and the special issues issued beside them.Clarivate 统计 2025 年卷载文 241 篇，分布在每年 8 期常规期号与随附的专辑之中。
• The impact factor peaked at 7.237 for 2022, fell to 3.0 in 2023 and 2.9 in 2024, then recovered to 3.3 in 2025.影响因子在 2022 年达到 7.237 的峰值，2023 年降至 3.0，2024 年为 2.9，2025 年回升至 3.3。
• A five-year impact factor of 8.6 against the two-year figure of 3.3 points to work that earns citations slowly and then holds them.五年影响因子 8.6 与两年值 3.3 之间的落差，指向一类获得引用较慢却持久的成果。
• The journal belongs to a family of society publications that also includes International Journal of Climatology and Meteorological Applications, and it is the oldest of the group.该刊属于学会的一族出版物，同族还有 International Journal of Climatology 与 Meteorological Applications，其中它的历史最长。
• PubMed indexes the title on a selective basis, recording citations for chosen articles rather than for the complete run.PubMed 对该刊作选择性收录，只为部分文章登记引文，并未覆盖全部篇目。
• Back files from 1871 are digitised on Wiley Online Library, so a paper printed in the nineteenth century can be read beside one published this month.自 1871 年起的全部过刊已在 Wiley Online Library 数字化，19 世纪的论文与本月新刊可以并排阅读。

Editors

• Editorial decisions rest with the journal's editors, who commission referees and weigh their reports before accepting or declining a manuscript.编辑决定由刊物的编辑团队作出，他们邀请审稿人并在接受或退稿之前权衡各份审稿意见。
• Manuscripts are submitted and tracked through the ScholarOne Manuscripts system that Wiley runs for the title, which also carries revisions and proofs.稿件通过 Wiley 为该刊运行的 ScholarOne Manuscripts 系统提交与跟踪，修回与校样也在同一系统内完成。
• Full articles make up the bulk of what is published, and each is expected to advance understanding of a problem rather than to add one more case to the record.完整论文占发表内容的主体，每篇都被期待推进对某一问题的理解，而不只是为文献增添一例。
• Comprehensive review articles are considered as well, and they tend to be long syntheses that map a subfield instead of summarising a single group's output.综合性综述同样在受理之列，这类文章通常篇幅较长，勾勒一个分支的格局，而不限于总结某一课题组的成果。
• Comments on published papers give readers a formal channel to contest methods or interpretations, and the exchange appears alongside the original article.对已刊论文的评论为读者提供了正式质疑方法或解释的渠道，往来文字与原文一并刊出。
• Short contributions describing minor investigations are accepted when the result is useful but does not warrant a full-length treatment.描述小型研究的短稿在结果有用却不足以支撑长文时会被接受。
• Referees are drawn from the international research community, and reports are expected to address the soundness of the method as much as the interest of the result.审稿人取自国际研究共同体，审稿意见需要同时评估方法的可靠性与结果的价值。
• Special issues sit outside the eight regular numbers, and their contents are assembled by the editorial team rather than left to unsolicited submission alone.专辑不属于每年 8 期常规期号，其内容由编辑团队组稿，并不完全依赖自然来稿。
• The title follows Wiley's publication ethics framework, which applies COPE guidance to authorship disputes, to duplicate submission and to corrections.刊物执行 Wiley 的出版伦理框架，作者身份争议、重复投稿与更正均按 COPE 指南处理。
• Accepted manuscripts appear online in Early View before the print issue is made up, so citation can begin months ahead of the volume date.录用稿件先以 Early View 形式在线发布，纸本成册之前即可被引用，时间上可早于卷期数月。
• Submissions are handled in English throughout, and Wiley's production staff manage copy-editing, typesetting and the licence forms.投稿全程以英文处理，文字编辑与排版以及版权协议由 Wiley 的制作人员负责。