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Scope
Weather, Climate, and Society (WCAS) (ISSN: 1948-8327; eISSN: 1948-8335) publishes research and reviews that address economics, policy analysis, political science, history, communication, and institutional, social, health, and behavioral scholarship and research relating to weather and climate, including both climate variability and longer-term climate change. Contributions must include evidence-based analysis and substantive discussion of the interactions of weather and climate with society, taking an integrated approach, drawing on both the social and physical sciences.
Since many authors of WCAS papers are from social science disciplines, for which funding is generally more limited than in the physical sciences, the AMS Council has eliminated page charges for this journal.
2019 Impact Factor: 1.9581
Submission Types
- Articles: Up to 7500 words (approximately 26 double-spaced pages), 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.
Editors and Staff Contacts
Chief Editor
Henry Huntington, Huntington Consulting
Editors
Emma Archer, University of Pretoria
Walker S. Ashley, Northern Illinois University
Michael A. Goldstein, Babson College
Carla Roncoli, Emory University
Tanya Spero, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Associate Editors
Bogdan Antonescu, Remote Sensing Department, Romanian National Institute for Research and Development in Optoelectronics INOE 2000
Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak, National Taiwan Normal University
Randall P. Benson, Avangrid Renewables
Harold Brooks, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Julie Demuth, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Kelsey Ellis, University of Tennessee
João P. A. Gobo, Department of Geography, Federal University of Rondônia, Brazil
Kristine Harper, University of Copenhagen
Jennifer Henderson, Texas Tech University
Grete K. Hovelsrud, Nord University
Peter Howe, Utah State University
Vladimir Jankovic, University of Manchester
Jonghun Kam, Pohang University of Science and Technology
Kimberly Klockow, CIMMS, University of Oklahoma and NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory
Shalini Lata, The University of Notre Dame Australia
Maria-Carmen Lemos, University of Michigan
Suleman Sarwar, University of Jeddah
Thomas Schmidlin, Kent State University
Kathleen Sherman-Morris, Mississippi State University
Roopam Shukla, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Detlef Sprinz, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and University of Postdam
Alan Stewart, University of Georgia
Stephen M. Strader, Villanova University
Benjamin Sultan, IRD, French National Research Institute of Sustainable Development and ESPACE-DEV
Peer Review Support Staff
Erin Gumbel, Assistant to Henry Huntington, and Carla Roncoli
Tiffany Bischoff, Assistant to Tanya Spero
Hayley Charney, Assistant to Michael Goldstein
Al Russo, Assistant to Emma Archer
Chris Ziebarth, Assistant to Walker S. Ashley
Production Staff
Mike Friedman, Senior Manager for Publishing Operations
Mark E. Fernau, Lead Technical Editor
Jessica A. LaPointe, Lead Copy Editor
Liz Wright, Author Submission Support