Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
AMT

Aims and scope

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT) is a not-for-profit international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and discussion of advances in remote sensing, as well as in situ and laboratory measurement techniques for the constituents and properties of the Earth's atmosphere.

The primary subject areas encompass the development, intercomparison, and validation of measurement instrumentation and/or methodologies for data processing and information retrieval pertaining to atmospheric constituents (including trace gases, aerosols, precipitation, and cloud particles) and/or key meteorological and thermodynamic variables.

Submissions to AMT must be based on remote sensing, in situ, or laboratory measurements that are relevant to atmospheric sciences and/or on theoretical calculations or numerical simulations of relevant measurement processes.

Contributions are expected to incorporate a rigorous consideration of uncertainties and, where appropriate, simulations of instruments and/or retrieval algorithms.

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques has an innovative two-stage publication process involving preprint posting on EGUsphere, EGU's preprint repository, which has been designed to do the following:

  • foster scientific discussion;
  • maximize the effectiveness and transparency of scientific quality assurance;
  • enable rapid publication;
  • make scientific publications freely accessible.

In the first stage, papers that pass a rapid access review are immediately posted as preprints on EGUsphere. They are then subject to interactive public discussion, during which the referees' comments (anonymous or attributed), additional comments by other members of the scientific community (attributed), and the authors' replies are also posted alongside the preprint. In the second stage, the peer-review process is completed and, if accepted, the final revised papers are published in AMT. To ensure publication precedence for authors, and to provide a lasting record of scientific discussion, EGUsphere and AMT are ISSN-registered, permanently archived, and fully citable.