Monthly Weather Review

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Scope

Monthly Weather Review (MWR) (ISSN: 0027-0644; eISSN: 1520-0493) publishes research relevant to the analysis and prediction of atmospheric circulations and processes for time scales from short-range to seasonal, with the goal of advancing the community's understanding of these subjects. This research includes innovations in analytic and numerical techniques, data assimilation, model development and evaluation, observations, process and case studies, and feature- or process-based climatologies.

2025 Impact Factor: 3.31

Submission Types

  • Articles: Up to 7500 words, including the body text, acknowledgments, and appendixes. The word limit does not include the title page, abstract, references, captions, tables, and figures. If a submission exceeds the word limit, the author must provide a justification for the length of the manuscript and request the Chief Editor’s approval of the overage. This request may be uploaded in a document with the "Cover Letter" item type or entered in the comment field in the submission system.
  • Reviews: Synthesis of previously published literature that may address successes, failures, and limitations. Requires Review Proposal. For more information, see Review Articles.
  • Comment and Reply Exchange: Comments are written in response to a published article and should be submitted within 2 years of the publication date of the original article (although the editor can waive this limit in extenuating circumstances). The author of the original article has the opportunity to write a Reply. These exchanges are published together. 
  • Corrigenda: The corrigendum article type is available for authors to address errors discovered in already published articles. For more information, see Corrigenda.

  • Picture of the Month: Brief communication emphasizing imagery of weather phenomena of interest to the meteorological community.
  • Annual Weather Summary: Extensive overview of, for example, an entire season of hurricane activity. A higher word count may be granted at the chief editor's discretion.

Editors and Staff Contacts

Chief Editor

Ron McTaggart-Cowan, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Associate Chief Editor

Tom Galarneau, National Severe Storms Laboratory

Editors

Rebecca Adams-Selin, Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER)

Jeffrey Anderson, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Tommaso Benacchio, Danish Meteorological Institute

Kristen L. Corbosiero, University at Albany, State University of New York

Clark Evans, NOAA/OAR/Global Systems Laboratory

Michael French, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Jidong Gao, NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory

Bart Geerts, University of Wyoming

Joshua P. Hacker, Jupiter Intelligence

Daryl Kleist, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center

Justin McLay, Naval Research Laboratory

Zhiyong Meng, Peking University

Justin Minder, University at Albany, State University of New York

Derek Posselt, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Jonathan Poterjoy, University of Maryland

Julian Quinting, University of Cologne

Rosimar Rios-Berrios, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Paul Roundy, University at Albany, State University of New York

Angela Rowe, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jason Sippel, NOAA/Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory/Hurricane Research Division

Christopher Weiss, Texas Tech University

Andrew Winters, University of Colorado Boulder

May Wong, NCAR

 

Associate Editors

Kyle Ahern, University of Leeds

Altuğ Aksoy, University of Miami and NOAA/AOML

John R. Albers, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory

Addison Alford, NOAA/OAR/National Severe Storms Laboratory

Michael Barnes, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, Monash University

Thomas Bendall, Met Office

Emily Bercos-Hickey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Kevin Biernat, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

David Bodine, University of Oklahoma

Joseph Boomgard-Zagrodnik, Verisk Weather Solutions

Michael J. Brennan, NOAA/NWS/NCEP National Hurricane Center

Matthew C. Brown, University of North Dakota

Jacob Carlin, NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory

Jean-François Caron, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Steven Cavallo, University of Oklahoma

Man-Yau ("Joseph") Chan, The Ohio State University

Ming-Xuan Chen, Institute of Urban Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration

Ray Chew, California Institute of Technology, Climate Modeling Alliance

Hristo G. Chipilski, Florida State University

Michael Coniglio, NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory

Alex Crawford, Centre for Earth Observation Science, Clayton Riddell Faculty of Environment Earth and Resources, University of Manitoba

Casey Davenport, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Daniel T. Dawson II, Purdue University

Jennifer DeHart, Colorado State University

Charlotte DeMott, Colorado State University

Arlan Dirkson, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Andreas Dörnbrack, German Aerospace Center Oberpfaffenhofen

Yu Du, Sun Yat-sen University

Jeff Duda, University of Colorado Boulder/CIRES and NOAA/Global Systems Laboratory

Patrick Duran, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Jie Feng, Fudan University

Peter Finocchio, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Jannick Fischer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Michael Fischer, University of Miami

Matthew Flournoy, National Severe Storms Laboratory

Adam French, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Stéphane Gaudreault, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Guoqing Ge, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA/Global Systems Laboratory

Joshua Gebauer, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations/National Severe Storms Laboratory

Moha Gharamti, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

Jeremy A. Gibbs, NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory

Frank Giraldo, Naval Postgraduate School

Brigitta Goger, GeoSphere Austria

Steven J. Greybush, The Pennsylvania State University

Oksana Guba, Sandia National Laboratories

Andrea N. Hahmann, DTU Wind, Technical University of Denmark

Seraphine Hauser, ETH Zurich

Andrew Hazelton, University of Miami CIMAS/NOAA AOML

Takumi Honda, The University of Tokyo

Jana Houser, The Ohio State University

Yongjie Huang, University of Oklahoma

Syed Zahid Husain, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Aaron Johnson, University of Oklahoma

Lukas Kugler, University of Ljubljana

Marcin Kurowski, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Quinton A. Lawton, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

Lili Lei, Nanjing Univeristy

Yu-Chieng Liou, National Central University, Taiwan

Sarah-Jane Lock, ECMWF

Scott Loeffler, United States Naval Academy

Anthony Lyza, NOAA/OAR/National Severe Storms Laboratory

Jim Marquis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Allison Michaelis, North Carolina State University

Benjamin Moore, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego

Matthias Morzfeld, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

Shawn Murdzek, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, and NOAA Global Systems Laboratory

Kelly M. Núñez Ocasio, Texas A&M University

Annika Oertel Karlsruhe, Institute of Technology

Giuseppe Orlando, École polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Pedro Peixoto, University of Sao Paulo

Bruno Ribeiro, StormGeo/Climatempo and Civil Defense of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Jacopo Riboldi, ETH Zurich

Michael Riemer, Johannes Gutenberg-Universtiät Mainz

James Ruppert, University of Oklahoma

Naoko Sakaeda, University of Oklahoma

Ben Schenkel, University of Oklahoma and the National Severe Storms Laboratory

Carl Schreck III, North Carolina State University

Robert Schrom, University of Maryland Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Alex Schueth, University of Oklahoma

Craig Schwartz, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Milind Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Anna Shlyaeva, UCAR, Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science, NOAA Environmental Modeling Center

Patrick Skinner, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO)/National Severe Storms Laboratory

Laura Slivinski, NOAA/OAR Physical Sciences Laboratory

Petra Smolíková, Czech Hydrometeorological Institute

Ryan Sobash, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Brian Squitieri, NOAA/NWS/NCEP - Storm Prediction Center

W. James Steenburgh, University of Utah

Christopher Subich, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Maxime Taillardat, Météo-France and National Centre for Meteorological Research

Ryan D. Torn, University at Albany, State University of New York

Qiu Yang, Peking University

George Young, The Pennsylvania State University

Chau-Lam Yu, University at Albany, State University of New York

Nedjeljka Zagar, University of Hamburg

Troy Zaremba, Mississippi State University

Murong Zhang, Xiamen University

Yunji Zhang, The Pennsylvania State University

Bowen Zhou, Nanjing University


Peer Review Support Staff

Erin Gumbel, Assistant to Ron McTaggart-Cowan, Rebecca Adams-Selin, Jidong Gao, and Joshua P. Hacker

Aylin Arruda, Assistant to Jonathan Poterjoy and Rosimar Rios-Berrios

Cristina Barletta, Assistant to Michael French, Bart Geerts, Daryl Kleist, Angela Rowe, and Jason Sippel

Hayley Charney, Assistant to Tommaso Benacchio and Christopher Weiss

Jane Foley, Assistant to Clark Evans and Zhiyong Meng

Colleen Gaffney, Assistant to Jeffrey Anderson and Andrew Winters

Tom Justice, Assistant to Kristen L. Corbosiero, Tom Galarneau, Justin McLay, and Justin Minder

Robbie Matlock,  Assistant to Derek Posselt, Julian Quinting, and Paul Roundy

Andrea Schein,  Assistant to May Wong


Production Contacts

Please see the AMS Publications contacts page.

1 2025 Journal Impact Factors by Clarivate Analytics; Meteorology and Atmospheric Science category.