Editorial
2023 Volume 101 Issue 1 Pages 1-2
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2023 Volume 101 Issue 1 Pages 1-2
In mid-2022, I succeeded the chief editor from Prof. Masaki Satoh, who served for 12 years and made significant contribution to improve JMSJ in all aspects. With the new co-chief editors and the editors, I would like to work for the journal's continuous improvement and satisfaction for our authors, readers, and reviewers.
In 2023, the Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan (JMSJ) publishes the 101st volume of its incarnation as “Series II”. From this volume, we would like to highlight around one or two papers per issue. The journal's rich archive presents a fascinating history of the development of meteorological science and is a testament to all those who have contributed to the journal's success. We will keep striving to improve JMSJ in all aspects - editorial, technological, financial and otherwise – to ensure that it continues to serve as a resource for, and of, the meteorological research community.
In 2022, the JMSJ Editorial Committee was honored to present the JMSJ Award to the authors of an article that presented novel research findings on important topics.
Ishioka et al. (2022): The authors proposed a formulation of a three-dimensional spectral model based on the primitive equations. In this formulation, the Legendre polynomial expansion is used for the vertical discretization. By performing several calculations with different vertical degrees of freedom, a characteristic property of the spectral method is observed in which the error of the numerical solution decreases rapidly when the number of vertical degrees of freedom is increased.
As of 30 November 2022, we raised the two most accessed papers in 2022: Kobayashi et al. (2015), which describes the general specifications and basic characteristics of the JRA-55 Reanalysis, and Bessho et al. (2016), which provides a comprehensive introduction to the new Himawari-8/9 geostationary meteorological satellites. For the full list, see https://jmsj.metsoc.jp/most_accessed/2022.html.
An invited review article was published in 2022: Ishida et al. (2022) outlined the nonhydrostatic numerical weather prediction (NWP) model ASUCA developed by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) was launched into operation as 2 km- and 5 km-resolution regional models in 2015 and 2017, respectively We thank the authors for their contributions.
Five JMSJ special editions were organized and published in 2022:
Submissions for “Special Edition on Research on Extreme Weather Events that occurred around East Asia in 2017–2021” will close on 28 February 2023, and submissions for “Special Edition on Research on the Frontier of Atmospheric Science with High Performance Computing” will close on 31 December 2023. We welcome further contributions to this special edition. It is worthwhile noted that JMSJ jointly organized this special edition with SOLA, the Meteorological Society of Japan's international letters journal.
In 2020, JMSJ created a channel on J-STAGE Data (https://jstagedata.jst.go.jp/jmsj) to enable authors to deposit, share and link to the data within their articles. In 2022, JMSJ authors added five datasets to J-STAGE Data. Authors of JMSJ papers are strongly encouraged to use J-STAGE Data for archiving datasets related to their papers. Authors who plan to use J-STAGE Data should refer to the JMSJ website (https://jmsj.metsoc.jp/instructions.html) and contact the JMSJ Editorial Office (jmsj@metsoc.jp) for instructions.
We would like to express our gratitude to the meteorological research community for its support of the journal in 2022 and for the forthcoming contributions in 2023. The journal's success relies on the considerable efforts of authors, reviewers, readers, and editors. We look forward to working with you to continue JMSJ's development and success in 2023.
