Scheduled special issues
The following special issues are scheduled for publication in AMT:
A
This special issue consists of papers that describe the modelling, observations, and analysis of data related to the ACROSS (Atmospheric Chemistry of the Suburban Forest) field measurement campaign that took place in summer 2022 in the Paris region. It could also include papers describing new instrumentation or new instrumental configurations used during the campaign. Any papers directly related to the ACROSS project are welcome for submittal to this special issue.
Review process: This inter-journal special issue co-lists papers of different journals. Thereby, each paper was submitted to 1 particular journal and underwent the regular interactive peer-review process of that journal. Depending on the journal, the peer review was handled by regular members of the editorial board and/or by guest editors designated by the journal's chief/executive editors.
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For a better scientific understanding of the background atmospheric chemistry and its impacts on climate change, air quality, and human health, multiple international campaigns, referred to as the @Tibet field campaigns, have been conducted since 2019 under the umbrella of the second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (STEP). As supported by the major research plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) entitled
fundamental researches on the formation and response mechanism of air pollution complex, the research conducted in the Tibetan Plateau and eastern China was underpinned by a number of instrument developments required to meet the specific demands of exploring air pollution and fundamental atmospheric photochemistry. This AMT–ACP joint special issue is therefore designed to intensively discuss data from @Tibet field campaigns and instrument development progress.
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Occultation methods share the unique properties of self-calibration; high accuracy and vertical resolution; global coverage; and, if using radio signals, all-weather capability. Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) radio occultation has become particularly successful over the recent decades and provides accurate refraction-based measurements using data from all GNSS systems.
Occultation data are of high utility in numerical weather prediction, atmospheric physics, and climate science. Their application has further broadened in recent years, and new satellite missions and observation methods are on the way.
The OPAC-IROWG 2022 workshop brought together members from the different sub-communities and users of occultation data. The present Atmospheric Measurement Techniques special issue is dedicated to the results of this conference and recent achievements.
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SCOR (Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research) Working Group 167 (Reducing Uncertainty in Soluble aerosol Trace Element Deposition, RUSTED), appointed in October 2022, brings together experts from the atmospheric chemistry, ocean biogeochemistry, and modelling communities. Aiming to reduce uncertainties in soluble aerosol trace element deposition, RUSTED will quantitatively assess different aerosol leaching schemes; formulate standard operating procedures (SOPs) for frequently used aerosol leaching schemes; and develop a user-friendly, open-access database of aerosol trace element data which includes advice on the use of the data in Earth system models.
In this special issue, we propose to curate cutting-edge studies which advance our knowledge of the deposition of soluble aerosol trace elements and their impacts on marine ecosystems. We also encourage the submission of manuscripts which address challenges and/or report recent advances in the field of aerosol trace element deposition from researchers outside the working group.
Review process: This inter-journal special issue co-lists papers of different journals. Thereby, each paper was submitted to 1 particular journal and underwent the regular interactive peer-review process of that journal. Depending on the journal, the peer review was handled by regular members of the editorial board and/or by guest editors designated by the journal’s chief/executive editors.S
It consists of about 60 sites located all over the world. The main instrument at each site is the sun—sky radiometer, but to strengthen the ability of SKYNET, simultaneous measurements with other instruments such as pyranometers, pirgeometers, microwave radiometers, absorption meters, cloud cameras, lidars, MAX-DOAS, and instrumentation for in situ characterisation are also conducted for some selected sites.
This special issue will face issues related to the following topics: aerosol and cloud properties from radiometers; developments on instrumentation; aerosol radiative forcing and climate effects; intercomparison among radiometer networks; validation of aerosol and cloud properties from satellite and models; applications for air pollution studies; and applications for solar energy.
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The prediction of the winter weather over complex terrain is quite challenging due to the highly variable nature of winds, visibility, and snowfall. As a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) World Weather Research Program (WWRP) Research Demonstration Project (RDP) and Forecast Demonstration Project (FDP), ICE-POP 2018 (International Collaborative Experiments for PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic winter games) was held in the PyeongChang region from November 2017 to April 2018 with contributions from 29 agencies from 12 countries. The region was quite unique for observing winter weathers that are influenced by cold air and warm ocean interaction, sudden uplifting by steep terrains near the coast, and modulation by complex terrains. The main scientific goal was to understand the precipitation processes in this unique region during the cold season and to evaluate/improve forecasting from numerical models based on intensive observations. Dense observational networks of upper air observation (eight soundings, two wind profilers, shipborne sounding, and dropsonde), remote sensing (three X-Pol radars, one Ku/Ka-Pol radar and three S-Pol, one S-band, two C-band, and three Doppler lidars), microphysical observation (2DVD, MASC, PIP, Parsivel, MRR, POSS, Pluvio), and surface stations (64 stations) were implemented, in particular, to observe the evolution of precipitation along and across atmospheric flows. The field experiment and real-time forecast demonstration ended and the second phase of the experiment has started for better understanding of the microphysical processes, their better representation in the numerical modeling, and further improvement of winter weather prediction through various international collaborations.
The main purposes of the special issue are
1) to document the scientific findings on the winter weather during the forecast demonstration project
2) to share scientific knowledge on processes of winter weathers that have been investigated with unprecedented dense observational networks,
3) to share current status and improved knowledge of forecasting of winter weathers, and
4) to document new retrieval and quality control methods of the operational and advanced instruments.
The special issue will include all manuscripts related to observational data, products, NWP modeling, researches on observational instrumentation, process/mechanism study, reanalysis, integration of observation and numerical modeling, and prediction of the winter weathers.
2023
SCOR (Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research) Working Group 167 (Reducing Uncertainty in Soluble aerosol Trace Element Deposition, RUSTED), appointed in October 2022, brings together experts from the atmospheric chemistry, ocean biogeochemistry, and modelling communities. Aiming to reduce uncertainties in soluble aerosol trace element deposition, RUSTED will quantitatively assess different aerosol leaching schemes; formulate standard operating procedures (SOPs) for frequently used aerosol leaching schemes; and develop a user-friendly, open-access database of aerosol trace element data which includes advice on the use of the data in Earth system models.
In this special issue, we propose to curate cutting-edge studies which advance our knowledge of the deposition of soluble aerosol trace elements and their impacts on marine ecosystems. We also encourage the submission of manuscripts which address challenges and/or report recent advances in the field of aerosol trace element deposition from researchers outside the working group.
Review process: This inter-journal special issue co-lists papers of different journals. Thereby, each paper was submitted to 1 particular journal and underwent the regular interactive peer-review process of that journal. Depending on the journal, the peer review was handled by regular members of the editorial board and/or by guest editors designated by the journal’s chief/executive editors.This special issue consists of papers that describe the modelling, observations, and analysis of data related to the ACROSS (Atmospheric Chemistry of the Suburban Forest) field measurement campaign that took place in summer 2022 in the Paris region. It could also include papers describing new instrumentation or new instrumental configurations used during the campaign. Any papers directly related to the ACROSS project are welcome for submittal to this special issue.
Review process: This inter-journal special issue co-lists papers of different journals. Thereby, each paper was submitted to 1 particular journal and underwent the regular interactive peer-review process of that journal. Depending on the journal, the peer review was handled by regular members of the editorial board and/or by guest editors designated by the journal's chief/executive editors.
Occultation methods share the unique properties of self-calibration; high accuracy and vertical resolution; global coverage; and, if using radio signals, all-weather capability. Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) radio occultation has become particularly successful over the recent decades and provides accurate refraction-based measurements using data from all GNSS systems.
Occultation data are of high utility in numerical weather prediction, atmospheric physics, and climate science. Their application has further broadened in recent years, and new satellite missions and observation methods are on the way.
The OPAC-IROWG 2022 workshop brought together members from the different sub-communities and users of occultation data. The present Atmospheric Measurement Techniques special issue is dedicated to the results of this conference and recent achievements.
2022
For a better scientific understanding of the background atmospheric chemistry and its impacts on climate change, air quality, and human health, multiple international campaigns, referred to as the @Tibet field campaigns, have been conducted since 2019 under the umbrella of the second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (STEP). As supported by the major research plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) entitled
fundamental researches on the formation and response mechanism of air pollution complex, the research conducted in the Tibetan Plateau and eastern China was underpinned by a number of instrument developments required to meet the specific demands of exploring air pollution and fundamental atmospheric photochemistry. This AMT–ACP joint special issue is therefore designed to intensively discuss data from @Tibet field campaigns and instrument development progress.
2021
2020
The prediction of the winter weather over complex terrain is quite challenging due to the highly variable nature of winds, visibility, and snowfall. As a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) World Weather Research Program (WWRP) Research Demonstration Project (RDP) and Forecast Demonstration Project (FDP), ICE-POP 2018 (International Collaborative Experiments for PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic winter games) was held in the PyeongChang region from November 2017 to April 2018 with contributions from 29 agencies from 12 countries. The region was quite unique for observing winter weathers that are influenced by cold air and warm ocean interaction, sudden uplifting by steep terrains near the coast, and modulation by complex terrains. The main scientific goal was to understand the precipitation processes in this unique region during the cold season and to evaluate/improve forecasting from numerical models based on intensive observations. Dense observational networks of upper air observation (eight soundings, two wind profilers, shipborne sounding, and dropsonde), remote sensing (three X-Pol radars, one Ku/Ka-Pol radar and three S-Pol, one S-band, two C-band, and three Doppler lidars), microphysical observation (2DVD, MASC, PIP, Parsivel, MRR, POSS, Pluvio), and surface stations (64 stations) were implemented, in particular, to observe the evolution of precipitation along and across atmospheric flows. The field experiment and real-time forecast demonstration ended and the second phase of the experiment has started for better understanding of the microphysical processes, their better representation in the numerical modeling, and further improvement of winter weather prediction through various international collaborations.
The main purposes of the special issue are
1) to document the scientific findings on the winter weather during the forecast demonstration project
2) to share scientific knowledge on processes of winter weathers that have been investigated with unprecedented dense observational networks,
3) to share current status and improved knowledge of forecasting of winter weathers, and
4) to document new retrieval and quality control methods of the operational and advanced instruments.
The special issue will include all manuscripts related to observational data, products, NWP modeling, researches on observational instrumentation, process/mechanism study, reanalysis, integration of observation and numerical modeling, and prediction of the winter weathers.
2018
2016
It consists of about 60 sites located all over the world. The main instrument at each site is the sun—sky radiometer, but to strengthen the ability of SKYNET, simultaneous measurements with other instruments such as pyranometers, pirgeometers, microwave radiometers, absorption meters, cloud cameras, lidars, MAX-DOAS, and instrumentation for in situ characterisation are also conducted for some selected sites.
This special issue will face issues related to the following topics: aerosol and cloud properties from radiometers; developments on instrumentation; aerosol radiative forcing and climate effects; intercomparison among radiometer networks; validation of aerosol and cloud properties from satellite and models; applications for air pollution studies; and applications for solar energy.