Climatic Change is dedicated to the totality of the problem of climatic variability and change - its descriptions, causes, implications and interactions among these. The purpose of the journal is to provide a means of exchange between those working on problems related to climatic variations but in different disciplines. Interdisciplinary researchers or those in any discipline, be it meteorology, anthropology, agricultural science, astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, geography, policy analysis, economics, engineering, geology, ecology, or history of climate, are invited to submit articles, provided the articles are of interdisciplinary interest. This means that authors have an opportunity to communicate the essence of their studies to people in other climate related disciplines and to interested non-disciplinarians, as well as to report on research in which the originality is in the combinations of (not necessarily original) work from several disciplines. The journal also includes vigorous editorial and book review sections.
Since June 2010, all manuscript submissions have been received via the electronic Editorial Manager system. Upon receipt, a manuscript will now be assigned to one of five deputy editors whose names are indicated on the Editorial Board page. Each deputy editor is experienced in interdisciplinary approaches to research, and more than one of them may become involved in managing the progress of each manuscript to assure that editorial expertise is well-matched to the disciplines applied in the manuscript. Working in conjunction with associate deputy editors who also combine expertise in various subfields with interdisciplinary experience, the deputy editors will assign reviewers, evaluate reviews when they are returned, decide whether revisions are needed, evaluate revised manuscripts, decide if re-review is required, and make a recommendation to the Co-Editors. The Co-Editors will make the ultimate decision on whether to accept or reject a manuscript, and they will work in conjunction with the Editorial Advisory Board to maintain a close watch on the process to assure consistency across subject areas.
To further speed the publication process, we have also made some changes in manuscript requirements and review procedures. Our goal is to encourage original research articles of about 12 published pages, inclusive of all text, references, figures and tables, which is equivalent to approximately 6,000 words if the manuscript were composed of text alone. We urge authors to take full advantage of our capacity for Electronic Supplemental Material. In the case of manuscripts with little promise of developing sufficient novelty, clarity, or interdisciplinary reach via the review process to merit publication in Climatic Change, we allow our editors discretion to recommend rejection of submissions without external review, subject to approval by the Editors-in-Chief in each case. Reviewers are now being asked to return reviews within four weeks, but we hope to shorten this time line in the future. When re-review of a manuscript indicates that a substantial number of significant, unresolved problems remain, it will generally be returned to the author without further consideration. These changes have already shortened the time between submission and online publication. Climatic Change will continue to publish essays, commentaries on published papers, our unique, invited springboard commentaries, and invited book reviews. More information on these categories, including word limits, may be found under Instructions for Authors.
Climatic Change Letters will continue to accept brief submissions that merit faster publication.

CO-EDITORS

Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Gary Yohe, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA

FOUNDING EDITOR
Stephen H. Schneider

MANAGING EDITORS

Michael Mastrandrea, Stanford University, CA, USA
Helen Poulos, Wesleyan University, MA, USA

DEPUTY EDITORS
Maxwell Boykoff, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Simon Donner, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC,Canada
L.D. Danny Harvey, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Bruce McCarl, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
William McGill, University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), Prince George, BC, Canada
Detlef P. van Vuuren, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

ASSOCIATE DEPUTY EDITORS
Saseendran S. Anapalli, USDA-ARS, MS, USA
William Anderegg, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Joshua Busby, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Katherine Calvin, Joint Global Change Research Institute, MD, USA
Long Cao, ZheJiang University, Huangzhou, P.R. China
Ching-Cheng Chang, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Richard Dawson, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
Enrica De Cian, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan, Italy
Loic D'Orangeville, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Kristie L. Ebi, ClimAdapt, LLC, Los Altos, CA, USA 
Darren L. Ficklin, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Ann-Marie Fortuna, USDA-ARS, Ames, IA, USA
Brian J. Gareau, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
Mike Goodman, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Andreas Hamann, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Jerry L. Hatfield, USDA-ARS, Ames, IA, USA
Andries F. Hof, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Robert E. Kopp, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA 
Volker Krey, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
Eike Luedeling, INRES Horticultural Sciences, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Katherine J. Mach, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Elizabeth L. Malone, Joint Gobal Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, USA
Douglas Maraun, University of Graz, Graz, Austria 
Anil Markandya, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain
Edwin P. Maurer, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA
Matto Mildenberger, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Peter Newton, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Alexander Popp, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
Kent E. Portney, Texas A&M University, USA 
Jim Salinger, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Rachael Shwom, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Aaron Strong, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
Jesse Tack, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
Katsumasa Tanaka, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan
Jagadish J. Thaker, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Evelina Trutnevyte, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

EDITORIAL BOARD

Lisa Alexander,University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
David Anthoff, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Dario Camuffo, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Padova, Italy
Stewart J. Cohen, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Purnamita Dasgupta, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, India
Philip M. Fearnside, Instituto Nacional des Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus, Amazonas-Brasil, Brazil
Peter H. Gleick, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, Oakland, CA, USA 
L.D. Danny Harvey, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Ann Henderson-Sellers, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Irene Hudson, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
Philip D. Jones, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Thomas R. Karl, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, USA
Richard W. Katz, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Kristin Kuntz-Duriseti, Stanford University, CA, USA
Rik Leemans, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Diana Liverman, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Michael Mastrandrea, Stanford University, CA, USA
Bruce A. McCarl, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Linda O. Mearns, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Richard Moss, World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC, USA
Leonard Nurse, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados
Christian Pfister, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland
David Pollard, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Norman J. Rosenberg, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Cynthia Rosenzweig, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Jim Salinger,University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Ben Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, USA
Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Karen C. Seto, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Petra Tschakert, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele,Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
David G. Victor, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Gary Yohe, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA