Weather and Climate is the journal of the Meteorological Society of New Zealand, and it has carried research on the country's atmosphere since 1981.《Weather and Climate》是新西兰气象学会的会刊，自 1981 年起承载这个国家的大气研究。
The title names two subjects and the archive keeps to both. Synoptic and mesoscale weather sits beside climate variability, climate change and seasonal prediction.题目点出两个主题，存档两个都守住了。天气尺度与中尺度的天气过程，旁边摆着气候变率、气候变化与季节预测。
Geography sets the agenda. New Zealand is a narrow landmass in a wide ocean, so the Tasman Sea, the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic margin enter most papers sooner or later.地理决定了议题。新西兰是辽阔海洋里一条窄陆地，塔斯曼海、南大洋与南极边缘迟早都会进入论文。
A paper from 2024 asks how the country's downscaled CMIP6 projections compare with the CMIP5 set they replace, which is the practical question every impact study inherits.2024 年有篇文章比较本国降尺度的 CMIP6 预估与其取代的 CMIP5，这是每一项影响研究都要接手的问题。
Another 2024 article evaluates the leading data-driven global weather models in the New Zealand context, putting machine-learning forecasts against the operational record in the same verification frame.2024 年另有文章在新西兰情境下评估领先的数据驱动全球天气模型，把机器学习预报与业务记录放进同一套检验框架。
Regional model skill for summertime temperatures was assessed in 2025. A second 2025 paper follows the Indian Ocean High and its interaction with the South Pacific High across three decades.区域模式对夏季气温的技巧，2025 年有人评估。同年另有论文追踪印度洋高压及其与南太平洋高压的相互作用，跨度三十年。
Operational practice has a standing place. Notes from the Forecast Room recurs from volume to volume and carries forecasters' own accounts of the work rather than research results.业务实践有固定位置。《预报室手记》一卷接一卷地出现，写的是预报员自己对工作的交代，不是研究结论。
Local observation keeps turning up. The Nelson sea breeze in southwesterly airstreams was described in the first volume, and an article on the engineering aspects of wind appeared in the same volume.本地观测不断出现。首卷写到了西南气流下的纳尔逊海风，同一卷里还有一篇讲风的工程问题。
Short notices sit beside the papers. The first volume closes with an item titled New Zealand Weather and with an obituary for a contributor, the two taking consecutive pages.短文与论文并排。首卷以一篇题为《新西兰天气》的短稿收尾，另有一篇给某位撰稿人的讣告，两者占的是相邻的两页。
Nothing is bolted on to attract volume. Full papers, short notes and reviews make up the content, printed to a plain two-column template that has kept its proportions.没有为了拉稿量而外加的栏目。全文、短记与综述构成内容，排进一个朴素的版式，比例多年不变。
The annual volume is small. Recent years carry four to eleven papers, and the issue is closed once a year instead of being rolled forward as material arrives.年卷规模不大。近年每年四到十一篇，一卷一年收官，不随时间累积滚动。
Everything is in English and nothing is charged to authors. The journal runs on the society's subscription base and on institutional access rather than on article processing charges.通篇英文，不收作者费用。刊物靠学会的订阅基础与机构访问维持，不走文章处理费的路线。
Its reach is archival. The full run is digitised on JSTOR, and every DOI deposited for the journal belongs to the 10.2307 prefix.它的落点在存档。全刊在 JSTOR 上数字化，为这份刊物存入的 DOI 一律落在 10.2307 前缀之下。
History
The first volume appeared in 1981 and its deposit holds thirty-five records, front and back matter counted in.首卷在 1981 年出版，存档里有三十五条记录，前置与后置页都算在内。
That count is typical of the early years. Volumes in the 1980s run from thirteen to thirty entries apiece, and 1991 is the heaviest in the archive at forty-four.这个数目在早年算常态。1980 年代每卷从十三条到三十条不等，全档最重的是 1991 年，四十条。
Typesetting in those volumes is all capitals, and articles, reviews and notices follow one another without much separation, which is how a small society printed cheaply.那些卷次的排版全用大写字母，论文、书评与通知接着排，彼此没有明显分隔，这是小学会省钱的做法。
Deposit thins after 1991. From 1992 onward five to nineteen records a year is the range, and the emptier years are not always the thinner volumes.1991 年之后存录变稀。从 1992 年起一年五条到十九条是常态区间，条数少的年份不一定是卷薄的年份。
Volume numbering and deposit dates part company once. Volume 23 carries 2004 dates although the count from 1981 puts it in 2003, so the 2003 year has nothing filed under its own label.卷号与存录年份脱开过一次。第 23 卷标的是 2004 年，可从 1981 年数下来它落在 2003 年，于是 2003 这个年份名下空着。
Something similar happens near the end. Volumes 42 and 43 both carry 2023 dates, which leaves 2022 without a year of its own in the record.临近末尾还有一回。第 42 卷与第 43 卷都标 2023 年，2022 年就这样在记录里没有自己的年份。
Volume 45, the 2025 issue, holds four records. Two are papers, one is front matter, and the last is a forecast-room note running to a few pages.第 45 卷即 2025 年那一期，只有四条记录。两篇是论文，一条是前置页，最后一条是几页长的预报室手记。
A hundred records across the archive are front or back matter, and fifty-four carry no title at all. The deposit is a scanning pipeline's output as much as a bibliography.全部存档里有百条记录属于前后置页，另有五十四条根本没有标题。这批存录既是书目，也是扫描流程的产物。
JSTOR supplied the digital archive, which is where the prefix comes from, and the society's own pages carry the volumes issued since.数字存档由 JSTOR 提供，前缀由此而来。此后各卷则由学会自己的页面承载。
The journal entered the Emerging Sources Citation Index, and its first impact factor in the current series was 3.8 for 2023.这份刊物进入了新兴来源引文索引，现行序列里的第一个影响因子是 2023 年的 3.8。
That figure fell to 2.0 in 2024 and recovered to 2.4 in 2025. Three points are a short series and the movement is not a trend yet.这个数字 2024 年降到 2.0，2025 年回到 2.4。三个点只是短序列，这点起伏还谈不上趋势。
Citation memory is long. The 2025 half-life is 9.4 years, and the 110 citations behind the figure accumulated over a decade rather than a season.引用记忆很长。2025 年的半衰期是 9.4 年，这个数字背后的 110 次引用是十年攒下的，不是一季攒下的。
The citation reports also record zero articles for the counted year. An annual volume that closes late will do that, and the effect is arithmetic rather than editorial.引文报告里还记着计数年份的文章数为零。年卷收得晚就会这样，这是算术结果，不是编辑上的判断。
Journal Citation Reports places it in the third quartile of meteorology and atmospheric sciences, at 79 of 114 titles, with a JCI of 0.28 and a percentile of 31.1.数据库把它放在气象与大气科学的第三四分位，114 种刊物里排第 79，JCI 为 0.28，百分位 31.1。
Editors
Editorial work is done inside the society. There is no commercial publisher between the author and the journal, so the masthead is a volunteer roster rather than a salaried office.编辑工作由学会自己做。作者与刊物之间没有商业出版方，编委名单是志愿者的名册，不是发薪的办公室。
The society lists the journal among its publications and keeps a page for it, and that page is where the current volume and the route for submissions are described.学会把这份刊物列在自己的出版物目录里，另设专页介绍，当前卷次与投稿路径都写在那里。
Every volume opens with front matter, and in the deposit those pages appear as untitled records. The masthead is printed, but it cannot be read from the metadata alone.每卷都以前置页开头，这些页面在存录里表现为无标题记录。编委名单是印出来的，光看元数据读不到。
Authorship is concentrated. Salinger appears sixteen times across the archive, Brenstrum and Mullan fourteen times each, Fitzharris thirteen, and Revell and Renwick twelve apiece.作者高度集中。萨林格在存档里出现十六次，布伦斯特鲁姆与马伦各十四次，菲茨哈里斯十三次，雷维尔与伦威克各十二次。
That concentration belongs to a country of about five million people with one meteorological society and a handful of university climate groups. The pool is the size it is.这种集中属于一个约五百万人口的国家，只有一家气象学会和少数几个大学气候研究组。人选池就那么大。
Forecast-room notes are the one place where the operational side speaks. They are shorter than the papers around them and are written from inside a shift rather than from a dataset.预报室手记是业务一方唯一开口的地方。它们比旁边的论文短，写于值班之中，不是从数据集里写出来的。
An obituary or a book notice does not arrive through review. The editor takes such pieces in directly, which is why they appear and disappear without a submission process.讣告或书评不走评审。编辑直接收下这类稿子，所以它们来去都没有投稿流程的痕迹。
The first volume ends with both an obituary and a note on the weather, which is a fair picture of what a small society editor does between research papers.首卷以一篇讣告和一篇天气短稿收尾，这大致就是小学会编辑在论文之间要做的杂事。
An annual cadence shapes the job. One issue, one deadline, and no rolling queue, so a late manuscript waits for the next year rather than displacing another.一年一卷的节奏塑造了这份工作。一期，一个截稿日，没有滚动队列，来晚的稿子等到下一年，不会顶掉别人。
The format has not changed much in forty-five volumes, and that continuity is the editor's most visible product. Sections keep their order, and terminology does not follow fashion.四十五卷下来版式变化不大，这种连贯本身就是编辑最显眼的成果。栏目次序照旧，术语也不追时髦。
A 2.4 impact factor with a 9.4-year half-life rewards work that ages well. Long observational records and regional syntheses earn their citations a decade after publication.2.4 的影响因子配 9.4 年的半衰期，奖励的是经得起时间的成果。长序列观测与区域综合要到十年后才开始收引用。
Editorial contact runs through the society's address rather than a publisher platform. Correspondence, review reports and proofs pass as documents by mail and e-mail.编辑联络走学会的地址，不走出版商平台。通信、审稿意见与校样以文件和邮件的形式往返。