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Executive editors : Ken Carslaw & Barbara Ervens
eISSN: ACP 1680-7324, ACPD 1680-7375

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) is a not-for-profit international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and public discussion of studies investigating Earth's atmosphere and the underlying chemical and physical processes. ACP publishes studies with important implications for our understanding of the state and behaviour of the atmosphere and climate, including the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere.

Topics include gases, aerosols, clouds, precipitation, dynamics, radiation and their role in the Earth's climate system (including the biosphere, hydrosphere, and cryosphere). Research activities include laboratory studies, field measurements, remote sensing, modelling and data analysis, and machine learning (for details see journal subject areas).

Transparent peer review for 20 years: for 20 years, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics has been a pioneer in transparent peer review. Submitted preprints, reviews, and author replies are posted and permanently archived on the journal website. This unique approach ensures the highest levels of scientific transparency and integrity, as well as fair peer review for authors.
IF value: 7.197
IF7.197
IF 5-year value: 7.320
IF 5-year7.320
CiteScore value: 11.1
CiteScore11.1
h5-index value: 93
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News

11 May 2023 ACP introduced Outstanding Referee and Editor awards

The success of ACP heavily relies on the huge commitment of volunteers that dedicate their time and expertise as referees and editors. To recognize particularly outstanding contributions in these efforts, ACP introduced this year awards for Outstanding Referees and Outstanding Editor. Read more.

11 May 2023 ACP introduced Outstanding Referee and Editor awards

The success of ACP heavily relies on the huge commitment of volunteers that dedicate their time and expertise as referees and editors. To recognize particularly outstanding contributions in these efforts, ACP introduced this year awards for Outstanding Referees and Outstanding Editor. Read more.

13 Apr 2023 ACP editor Guangjie Zheng awarded the 2023 Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award of the Atmospheric Sciences Division

Congratulations to our editor Guangjie Zheng, who will receive the 2023 Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award of the Atmospheric Sciences Division at the upcoming EGU General Assembly. Guanjie joined the ACP editorial board in 2022 and since then has provided her expertise of atmospheric multiphase chemistry processes to handle papers in the subject areas aerosols, clouds and precipitation, dynamics, and gases. If you attend EGU23, join the award lecture on Thu, 27 Apr 2023, 19:00.

13 Apr 2023 ACP editor Guangjie Zheng awarded the 2023 Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award of the Atmospheric Sciences Division

Congratulations to our editor Guangjie Zheng, who will receive the 2023 Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award of the Atmospheric Sciences Division at the upcoming EGU General Assembly. Guanjie joined the ACP editorial board in 2022 and since then has provided her expertise of atmospheric multiphase chemistry processes to handle papers in the subject areas aerosols, clouds and precipitation, dynamics, and gases. If you attend EGU23, join the award lecture on Thu, 27 Apr 2023, 19:00.

Highlight articles

05 May 2023
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Opinion: The scientific and community-building roles of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) – past, present, and future
Daniele Visioni, Ben Kravitz, Alan Robock, Simone Tilmes, Jim Haywood, Olivier Boucher, Mark Lawrence, Peter Irvine, Ulrike Niemeier, Lili Xia, Gabriel Chiodo, Chris Lennard, Shingo Watanabe, John C. Moore, and Helene Muri
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 5149–5176, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-5149-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-5149-2023, 2023
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25 Apr 2023
| Highlight paper
Methane emissions are predominantly responsible for record-breaking atmospheric methane growth rates in 2020 and 2021
Liang Feng, Paul I. Palmer, Robert J. Parker, Mark F. Lunt, and Hartmut Bösch
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 4863–4880, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-4863-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-4863-2023, 2023
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Recent papers

06 Jun 2023
Seasonal, interannual and decadal variability of tropospheric ozone in the North Atlantic: comparison of UM-UKCA and remote sensing observations for 2005–2018
Maria Rosa Russo, Brian John Kerridge, Nathan Luke Abraham, James Keeble, Barry Graham Latter, Richard Siddans, James Weber, Paul Thomas Griffiths, John Adrian Pyle, and Alexander Thomas Archibald
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 6169–6196, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-6169-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-6169-2023, 2023
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06 Jun 2023
Quantification of oil and gas methane emissions in the Delaware and Marcellus basins using a network of continuous tower-based measurements
Zachary Barkley, Kenneth Davis, Natasha Miles, Scott Richardson, Aijun Deng, Benjamin Hmiel, David Lyon, and Thomas Lauvaux
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 6127–6144, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-6127-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-6127-2023, 2023
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06 Jun 2023
Variations in global zonal wind from 18 to 100 km due to solar activity and the quasi-biennial oscillation and El Niño–Southern Oscillation during 2002–2019
Xiao Liu, Jiyao Xu, Jia Yue, and Vania F. Andrioli
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 6145–6167, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-6145-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-6145-2023, 2023
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06 Jun 2023
Fragmentation of ice particles: laboratory experiments on graupel-graupel and graupel-snowflake collisions
Pierre Grzegorczyk, Sudha Yadav, Florian Zanger, Alexander Theis, Subir K. Mitra, Stephan Borrmann, and Miklós Szakáll
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1074,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1074, 2023
Preprint under review for ACP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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06 Jun 2023
Influences of sources and weather dynamics on atmospheric deposition of Se species and other trace elements
Esther S. Breuninger, Julie Tolu, Iris Thurnherr, Franziska Aemisegger, Aryeh Feinberg, Sylvain Bouchet, Jeroen E. Sonke, Véronique Pont, Heini Wernli, and Lenny H. E. Winkel
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1135,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1135, 2023
Preprint under review for ACP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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Scheduled special issues

01 Mar 2023–30 Apr 2024 | ACP co-editors | Coordinators: Bryan N. Duncan and Andreas Hofzumahaus | Co-organizers: Owen R. Cooper and Martin G. Schultz | Information
01 Jan 2023–31 Dec 2028 | ACP co-editors | Coordinators: Gabriele Stiller and Peter Haynes | Co-organizers: Gloria Manney, Jonathon Wright, and Masatomo Fujiwara | Information
01 Jan 2023–31 Dec 2025 | ACP co-editors | Coordinators: Qiang Zhang and Yafang Cheng | Co-organizers: Yang Zhang, Karine Sartelet, and Sunling Gong | Information
01 Nov 2022–30 Jun 2023 | ACP Executive and Senior Editors | Information
13 Jul 2022–30 Jun 2023 | ACP editors | Coordinators: Gabriele Stiller and Bernd Funke | Co-organizers: Jan Laštovička and Viktoria Sofieva | Information
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