About the Journal of Weather Changes
Open-access, peer-reviewed scholarship advancing atmospheric science, climate dynamics, and meteorological research - bridging observational networks, predictive modeling, and evidence-based climate resilience strategies for a changing planet.
Advancing Atmospheric Science for Climate Understanding
The Journal of Weather Changes (JWC) provides a rigorous publication platform for researchers investigating Earth's evolving atmospheric systems, weather variability, and climate dynamics. As an open-access, peer-reviewed journal, JWC accelerates the dissemination of credible meteorological research, atmospheric modeling innovations, and climate impact assessments to a global audience of scientists, forecasters, policymakers, and environmental strategists.
JWC's editorial mission prioritizes scientific rigor through expert peer review, interdisciplinary collaboration across atmospheric physics, hydrology, oceanography, and climatology, and rapid knowledge transfer via transparent publication workflows. We publish original research articles, comprehensive reviews, technical commentaries, and data-driven analyses that illuminate the mechanisms, predictability, and consequences of weather and climate change.
Our community spans meteorological institutes, climate research centers, environmental agencies, and academic departments across six continents, united by the imperative to understand and anticipate atmospheric transformations shaping ecosystems, economies, and human well-being.
Climate and weather science demands publication partners who balance methodological rigor with operational responsiveness. JWC serves research teams navigating complex atmospheric phenomena - from convective storm dynamics to decadal climate oscillations - by providing transparent editorial stewardship, interdisciplinary peer review, and immediate global accessibility.
Each manuscript undergoes evaluation by specialists in atmospheric physics, numerical modeling, remote sensing, statistical climatology, and environmental impact assessment. Reviewers assess data quality, analytical robustness, reproducibility, and contextual relevance while providing constructive feedback that strengthens scholarship regardless of final disposition.
Accepted articles receive comprehensive dissemination support - indexing submissions, search engine optimization, and metadata enrichment - ensuring your climate research reaches forecasting agencies, environmental planners, academic curricula, and policy deliberations.
JWC welcomes contributions that advance mechanistic understanding, predictive capacity, or evidence-based responses to atmospheric and climate dynamics across temporal and spatial scales.
Global warming processes, greenhouse gas impacts, climate oscillations (ENSO, NAO, PDO), radiative forcing, climate feedbacks, and long-term climate trajectories.
Hurricanes, tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, heatwaves, cold waves, floods, droughts, and the attribution science linking extreme events to climate change.
Numerical weather prediction, climate model development, ensemble forecasting, data assimilation techniques, model validation, and predictability analysis.
Weather station networks, radar systems, satellite remote sensing, atmospheric sounding, field campaigns, and observational data quality control.
Atmospheric composition, aerosol-cloud interactions, air quality dynamics, trace gas transport, and chemical feedbacks on climate systems.
Precipitation patterns, hydrological extremes, snowpack dynamics, evapotranspiration, soil moisture, and climate impacts on water resources.
Ecological responses to climate shifts, agricultural vulnerability, infrastructure risk, coastal hazards, and ecosystem service disruptions.
Early warning systems, climate risk management, nature-based solutions, policy evaluation, and community-level adaptation strategies.
JWC operates a single-blind peer review process as standard, with double-blind review available upon author request to minimize potential reviewer bias. Submissions are assessed for scope alignment, methodological integrity, and ethical compliance before distribution to reviewers with expertise in atmospheric physics, statistical analysis, climate modeling, or environmental impact science.
- Methodological Rigor: Evaluation of observational protocols, model configurations, statistical treatments, uncertainty quantification, and data transparency.
- Reproducibility: Assessment of documentation quality, code availability, data accessibility, and sufficient detail for independent validation.
- Contextual Relevance: Verification that findings advance atmospheric science understanding, predictive capacity, or climate resilience practice.
- Ethical Compliance: Confirmation of responsible research conduct, appropriate authorship attribution, conflict of interest disclosure, and funding transparency.
JWC's manuscript workflow is engineered for atmospheric research teams balancing field campaigns, computational modeling, grant obligations, and teaching commitments. Authors submit through the Manuscript Zone portal or via email to [email protected]. The editorial office acknowledges submissions within 72 hours and maintains transparent communication throughout evaluation.
- Review JWC's Aims & Scope and Author Guidelines to ensure alignment on formatting, reporting standards, and ethical requirements.
- Prepare manuscripts with structured abstracts, comprehensive methods sections, transparent data statements, and author contribution documentation using CRediT taxonomy.
- Submit via online portal, including cover letters, data availability statements, conflict of interest disclosures, and any supplementary materials.
- Receive peer review feedback; respond to reviewer comments with point-by-point rebuttals; revised manuscripts undergo expedited re-evaluation.
- Upon acceptance, collaborate with production staff on copyediting, proof approval (48-hour turnaround), and metadata finalization before online publication.
Authors requiring English language support can access JWC's language editing service. Research institutions publishing multiple papers annually may benefit from membership programs offering APC discounts and priority handling.
All JWC content is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licensing. Authors retain copyright, enabling unrestricted reuse in teaching materials, policy briefs, grant proposals, and derivative research with appropriate citation.
JWC supports preprint deposition, institutional repository hosting, and dataset archiving in compliance with funder mandates. Observational data, model code, and analysis workflows should be deposited in recognized repositories to facilitate validation and future research. Review JWC's data archiving policies for detailed guidance.
Article processing charges apply only after acceptance. Consult the APC information page for current pricing, waiver criteria, and institutional agreements. Researchers from low-income countries and early-career scientists are encouraged to inquire about discretionary support.
JWC's editorial board comprises atmospheric scientists, climate modelers, and meteorological specialists from leading research institutions worldwide:
JWC actively curates thematic collections addressing pressing atmospheric science challenges. Researchers can propose guest-edited special issues via the special issue proposal portal or contribute to active calls through the submission interface.
Priority themes include climate extremes attribution, next-generation forecasting systems, atmospheric composition monitoring, climate model intercomparison, and adaptation science. These initiatives foster cross-sector collaboration among meteorological services, academic institutions, and environmental agencies.
Advance Atmospheric Science with JWC
Whether you model atmospheric dynamics, analyze climate trends, observe extreme weather, or evaluate environmental impacts, JWC provides a trusted publication platform. Partner with an editorial team committed to scientific excellence, transparent peer review, and global knowledge sharing.
