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Scope
Monthly Weather Review (MWR) (ISSN: 0027-0644; eISSN: 1520-0493) publishes research relevant to the analysis and prediction of observed atmospheric circulations and physics, including technique development, data assimilation, model validation, and relevant case studies. This research includes numerical and data assimilation techniques that apply to the atmosphere and/or ocean environments. MWR also addresses phenomena having seasonal and subseasonal time scales.
2022 Impact Factor: 3.21
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
Joshua P. Hacker, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Editors
Jeffrey Anderson, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Tommaso Benacchio, Danish Meteorological Institute
Mark Buehner, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Kristen L. Corbosiero, University at Albany, State University of New York
Clark Evans, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Tom Galarneau, National Severe Storms Laboratory
Jidong Gao, NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory
Daryl Kleist, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center
Matthew R. Kumjian, The Pennsylvania State University
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
Rosimar Rios-Berrios, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Paul Roundy, University at Albany, State University of New York
Angela Rowe, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael Scheuerer, Norwegian Computing Center, NR
Russ S. Schumacher, Colorado State University
Jason Sippel, NOAA/Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory/Hurricane Research Division
Stan Trier, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Christopher Weiss, Texas Tech University
Associate Editors
Becky Adams-Selin, Atmospheric and Environmental Research
Altuğ Aksoy, University of Miami and NOAA/AOML
Joshua Alland, NOAA/NWS/National Hurricane Center and UCAR
Alexandra Anderson-Frey, University of Washington
Wayne M. Angevine, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory
Sarah D. Bang, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Thomas Bendall, Met Office
David Bodine, University of Oklahoma
Joseph Boomgard-Zagrodnik, Washington State University
Michael J. Brennan, NOAA/NWS/NCEP National Hurricane Center
Kristen Calhoun, NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory
Steven Cavallo, University of Oklahoma
Manda Chasteen, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Mingxuan Chen, Institute of Urban Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration
Ray Chew, Goethe University Frankfurt
Brice Coffer, North Carolina 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
Sarah D. Ditchek, CIMAS, University of Miami and NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division
Andreas Dörnbrack, German Aerospace Center Oberpfaffenhofen
Yu Du, Sun Yat-sen University
Jeff Duda, University of Colorado Boulder/CIRES and NOAA/Global Systems Laboratory
Michael Fischer, NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division
Michael M. French, Stony Brook University
Stéphane Gaudreault, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Guoqing Ge, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory
Eric Gilleland, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Steven J. Greybush, The Pennsylvania State University
Oksana Guba, Sandia National Laboratories
Andrea N. Hahmann, DTU Wind, Technical University of Denmark
Wei Han, Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre, China Meteorological Administration
Andrew Hazelton, CIMAS, University of Miami and NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division
Thijs Heus, Cleveland State University
Aaron Hill, Colorado State University
Stacey Hitchcock, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes and University of Melbourne
Jana Houser, Ohio University
Yongjie Huang, University of Oklahoma
Aaron Johnson, University of Oklahoma
John Knaff, NOAA/National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Center
James M. Kurdzo, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Marcin Kurowski, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Andrea L. Lang, University at Albany, State University of New York
David Lee, Bureau of Meteorology
Lili Lei, Nanjing Univeristy
Yu-Chieng Liou, National Central University, Taiwan
Jim Marquis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Rachel Mauk, The Ohio State University
Annareli Morales, Weld County Department of Public and Environmental Health, Greeley, Colorado
Jake Mulholland, University of North Dakota
Jason E. Nachamkin, Naval Research laboratory
Matthew R. Norman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Christopher Nowotarski, Texas A&M University
Kelly M. Núñez Ocasio, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Jonathan Poterjoy, University of Maryland
Julian F. Quinting, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Jacopo Riboldi, ETH Zurich
Michael Riemer, Johannes Gutenberg-Universtiät Mainz
James Ruppert, University of Oklahoma
Carl Schreck III, North Carolina State University
Craig Schwartz, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Keith D. Sherburn, NOAA/National Weather Service
Patrick Skinner, CIMMS, University of Oklahoma, and NOAA/OAR/National Severe Storms Laboratory
Laura Slivinski, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory
Elizabeth Smith, CIMMS and NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory
Ryan Sobash, National Center for Atmospheric Research
W. James Steenburgh, University of Utah
Maxime Taillardat, Météo-France and National Centre for Meteorological Research
Dana Tobin, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA Weather Prediction Center
Ryan D. Torn, University at Albany, State University of New York
Benjamin Trabing, NOAA/NWS/National Hurricane Center and UCAR
Stefan Tulich, CIRES, University of Colorado and NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory/Physical Sciences Division
Paul Ullrich, University of California, Davis
Marcus van Lier-Walqui, Columbia University and NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Adam Varble, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Shuguang Wang, Nanjing University
Golo Wimmer Los Alamos National Laboratory
Andrew Winters, University of Colorado Boulder
Brandon Wolding, CIRES, University of Colorado and NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Laboratory
May Wong, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Kimberly Wood, Mississippi State University
Rochelle Worsnop, CIRES, University of Colorado and NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory
George Young, The Pennsylvania State University
Yunji Zhang, The Pennsylvania State University
Bowen Zhou, Nanjing University
Andrea Zonato, University of Trento, Italy
Peer Review Support Staff
Erin Gumbel, Assistant to Ron McTaggart-Cowan, Jidong Gao, and Joshua P. Hacker
DJ Arruda, Assistant to Mark Buehner, Kristen L. Corbosiero, Tom Galarneau, Justin McLay, and Rosimar Rios-Berrios
Cristina Barletta, Assistant to Daryl Kleist, Angela Rowe, and Jason Sippel
Tiffany Bischoff, Assistant to Jeffrey Anderson and Matthew R. Kumjian
Hayley Charney, Assistant to Tommaso Benacchio, Michael Scheuerer, and Christopher Weiss
Jane Foley, Assistant to Clark Evans and Zhiyong Meng
Robbie Matlock, Assistant to Justin Minder, Derek Posselt, Paul Roundy, Russ S. Schumacher, and Stan Trier
Production Staff
Mike Friedman, Associate Director - Publishing Technology
Richard R. Brandt, Lead Technical Editor
Andrea L. Schein, Lead Copy Editor
Danielle Joyce, Author Submission Support