Aims
Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433) is an international and cross-disciplinary scholarly journal of scientific studies related to the atmosphere. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, communications and short notes, and there is no restriction on the length of the papers. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical research in as much detail as possible. Full experimental and/or methodical details must be provided for research articles. There are, in addition, unique features of this journal:
manuscripts regarding research proposals and research ideas will be particularly welcomed
computed data or files regarding the full details of the experimental procedure, if unable to be published in a normal way, can be deposited as supplementary material
we also accept manuscripts communicating to a broader audience with regard to research projects financed with public funds
Subject Areas
Aerosols
This section collects papers on aerosols, including, but not limited to:
Anthropogenic and natural emissions
Primary and secondary atmospheric aerosols
Direct, semi-direct and indirect radiative effects
Aerosol–cloud interactions
Aerosol microphysics
Impact on air quality
Toxicity of aerosols
Large-scale transport
Chemical and physical properties
Measurements and modeling
Air Quality
This section collects papers on air quality, including, but not limited to:
Air quality field campaigns
Air quality modeling and forecasting
Air quality and health
Atmospheric composition
Remote sensing of atmospheric constituents
Air quality climatology
Air quality change and variability
Long range transport of air pollutants
Emission sources of pollutants
Atmospheric chemistry
Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions
This section analyzes how local to regional energy and trace gas exchanges between the surface and the atmosphere affect atmospheric conditions, including, but no limited to:
Weather and climate phenomena from local to regional scales
Exchange mechanisms
Greenhouse gas and other trace gas fluxes and their atmospheric reactions
Deposition processes
Anthropogenic land use change effects
Climatology and Meteorology
This section collects papers on climatology and meteorology, including, but not limited to:
Climatology
Climate Dynamics
Climate Change and Variability
General Circulation and Teleconnections
Operational Meteorology
Synoptic and Dynamic Meteorology
Mesoscale Meteorology
Weather Analysis and Forecasting
Numerical Methods
Physical Meteorology
Remote Sensing
Precipitation and Clouds
Biometeorology
This section deals with the interactions between atmospheric conditions and living organisms (humans, vegetation and animals), including, but not limited to:
Human biometeorology
Urban bioclimatology
Climate, tourism and recreation
Thermal comfort and heat stress
Air pollution effects
UV-radiation
Weather sensitivity
Biometeorology and climate change
Agricultural meteorology
Forest meteorology
Animal biometeorology
Climate and health
Phenology

Editorial Board
Editorial Board
Aerosols Section
Air Quality Section
Climatology Section
Meteorology Section
Biometeorology Section
Air Quality and Human Health Section
Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions Section
Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling Section
Upper Atmosphere Section
Planetary Atmospheres Section
Editors (8)
Prof. Dr. Robert W. Talbot E-Mail Website 
Editor-in-Chief
Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Science & Research Bldg. 1, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA
Interests: sources of anthropogenic atmospheric methane; autonomous drone system for detecting fugitive methane leaks; controls on ozone in Southern Texas; impact of Saharan dust on air quality along the U.S. Gulf Coast; sources and cycling of atmospheric mercury; green sustainable urban areas; Houston port activities impact on local air quality
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Prof. Dr. Anthony R. Lupo * E-Mail Website 
Associate Editor


Department of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Interests: dynamic meteorology; synoptic meteorology; climate dynamics; climate variability
* Editor-in-Chief of Section "Meteorology" 
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Dr. Giovanni Pitari * grade E-Mail Website 
Associate Editor


Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, 67010 Coppito, L’Aquila, Italy
Interests: global and regional modeling of atmospheric aerosols and their radiative effects; climate-chemistry interactions related to stratospheric ozone; intercontinental transport of trace gases and aerosols; aerosol-cloud interactions; aerosol remote sensing
* Editor-in-Chief of Section "Aerosols" 
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Prof. Dr. Clare Murphy (Paton-Walsh) * E-Mail Website 
Section Editor-in-Chief


Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
Interests: remote sensing of atmospheric composition using ground-based Fourier transform spectrometry; in situ analysers for atmospheric composition measurements; open-path measurements of atmospheric pollutants; understanding drivers of poor air quality; impact of biomass burning on the chemistry and composition of the troposphere; identifying and quantifying sources of greenhouse gases and other gaseous pollutants to the atmosphere; understanding the sources and fate of volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere
* Section "Air Quality" 
Prof. Dr. Andreas Matzarakis * E-Mail Website 
Section Editor-in-Chief


Research Center Human Biometeorology, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Stefan-Meier-Str. 4, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
Interests: human-biometeorology; urban bioclimatology; climate and tourism; climate impact research
* Section "Biometeorology" 
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Dr. Gunnar W. Schade * E-Mail Website 
Section Editor-in-Chief


Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Interests: biosphere-atmosphere interactions, energy and trace gas fluxes, boundary layer meteorology, climate change impacts
* Section "Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions" 
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Dr. Sergey Pulinets * E-Mail Website 
Section Editor-in-Chief


Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997 Moscow, Russia
Interests: physics of the ionosphere; atmospheric electricity; natural hazards; lithosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere coupling
* Section "Upper Atmosphere" 
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Dr. Francesca Costabile * E-Mail Website 
Section Editor-in-Chief


Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy
Interests: air quality; atmospheric aerosol; health effects; characterization of ultrafine particles; combustion generated aerosol and urban areas; black carbon and carbonaceous aerosol, and relevant toxicology
* Section "Atmosphere and Human Health" 
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Previous Editor
Prof. Dr. Daniela Jacob * E-Mail Website 
Former Editor-in-Chief


1 Climate Service Center 2.0, Fischertwiete 1, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
2 Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Interests: variability in the water cycle; regional climate; land-atmosphere interaction; clouds-aerosols
* Founding Editor-in-Chief 2010–2014 
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Editorial Board Members (181)
Dr. Jose A. Acosta E-Mail Website 


Sustainable Use, Management and Reclamation of Soil and Water Research Group. Agricultural Engineering Department. Technical University of Cartagena. Paseo Alfonso XIII, 48, 30203. Cartagena, Spain
Interests: physico-chemical properties of particulate matter (PM2.5, PM10); sources of anthropogenic atmospheric particles; health effects of ultra-fine particles; monitoring of atmospheric deposition of heavy metal; soil-dust-particulate matter interactions
Dr. Mirseid Akperov E-Mail Website 


Russian Academy of Sciences, A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, 119017 Moscow, Russian Federation
Interests: investigation of cyclone/anticyclone activity in Northern extratropics; cyclone activity in the Arctic with the use of reanalyses data; model simulations
Prof. Dr. Pinhas Alpert E-Mail Website 


Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
Interests: atmospheric dynamics; climate; numerical methods; limited area modeling; aerosol dynamics and climate change
Prof. Dr. Viney P. Aneja E-Mail Website 


Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Fax: +1 919 515 7802 
Interests: environment; air quality; and climate; emission; transport; transformation; fate of pollutants; agricultural air quality; climate change; biogeochemical cycling of pollutants; measurement and modeling of biogenic emissions of trace gases; photochemical oxidants and gas-to-particle conversion and gas-to-particle conversion
Dr. Begoña Artíñano E-Mail Website 


Department of Environment, CIEMAT, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: meteorology; air quality; aerosols; urban pollution; photochemical pollution; ozone; aerosol properties; particulate matter source apportionment; atmospheric pollution characterization; experimental studies
Prof. Dr. Shady Attia E-Mail Website 


Sustainable Buildings Design (SBD) Lab, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Interests: outdoor thermal comfort; bioclimatic zoning; passive cooling; biometeorology; weather analysis; climate change; heat stress
Prof. Pasquale Avino E-Mail Website 


Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences (DiAAA), University of Molise, via De Sanctis, I-86100 Campobasso, Italy
Interests: analytical chemistry; radiochemistry; instrumental neutron activation analysis; separations; environmental chemistry; exposure; dose; public health
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Atmosphere: Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality
Special Issue in Atmosphere: Ultrafine Particles: Determination, Behavior and Human Health Effects
Special Issue in Separations: Dispersive Liquid-Liquid MicroExtraction: State-of-the-Art, Advantages and Applications
Special Issue in Toxics: Particulate matter exposure and health effects
Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Gaseous and Airborne Emerging Pollutants in the Public Health Protection: Analyses, Levels and Effects
Special Issue in Methods and Protocols: State-of-the-Art Dispersive Liquid-Liquid Microextraction: Advantages and Applications
Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Phthalates and Bisphenol-A: Determinations, Levels and Effects on Human Health and Environment
Special Issue in Atmosphere: Indoor Air Quality: From Sampling to Risk Assessment in the Light of New Legislations
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Nuclear Analytical Chemistry: State of Art and New Trends in Activation Analysis
Dr. George Balasis E-Mail Website 


Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, I. Metaxa & Vas. Pavlou St., GR-15236 Penteli, Greece
Interests: space physics; space weather; Earth's magnetism; magnetic storms; complex systems; extreme geophysical events
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Geosciences: Detecting Geospace Perturbations Caused by Earth
Dr. Zoltán Barcza E-Mail Website 


Department of Meteorology, Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
Interests: eddy covariance; atmospheric greenhouse gases; carbon cycle; biogeochemical modelling
Dr. Robert Baxter E-Mail Website 


Department of Biosciences, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
Interests: arctic plant ecology; carbon partitioning in plants; climate change and plant ecophysiology; land-atmosphere interactions; montane plant ecology; pollution ecology; snow-vegetation-atmosphere interactions; stress physiology in plants