SOLA
Last updated ISSN 1349-6476
SOLA is published by The Meteorological Society of Japan in environmental science. It is open access. The article processing charge is $753.
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What it publishes
Recent work in SOLA concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Climate variability and models
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
- Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Cryospheric studies and observations
Key facts
| Publisher | The Meteorological Society of Japan |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1349-6476 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $753 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 1,095 |
| Publishing since | 2005 |
| Journal website | www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/sola |
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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