Journal of Climate
Last updated ISSN 0894-8755
Journal of Climate is published by American Meteorological Society in environmental science. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Climate concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Climate variability and models
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
Key facts
| Publisher | American Meteorological Society |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0894-8755, 1520-0442 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 14,100 |
| Publishing since | 1988 |
| Journal website | www.ametsoc.org/pubs/journals/jcli/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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