Editorial

Abstract

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere (SOLA) is a fully Open Access journal under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License. In order to rapidly publish papers as quickly as possible, SOLA aims to make a first decision within one month and a decision upon resubmission within a further month. A rapid review cycle is the first priority of SOLA as a rapid publication journal.
Recently, we have been making efforts to organize special editions to welcome submissions on specific topics. We published special editions on “Extreme Rainfall Events in 2017 and 2019” in 2019 and on “Years of the Maritime Continent (YMC)” in 2020. This year, the special edition on “Typhoons in 2018-2019” has been launched. A unique feature of these special editions is that they are organized jointly with Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. We are planning to issue another special edition this year in response to advance studies on extreme weather events that occurred last year. We hope that the readers would know the recent developments in research on specific topics dealt in those special editions.
The special editions encourage submissions on relevant topics. The number of submissions exceeded 100 last year. With the increasing tendency of the submissions, the impact factor provided by Clarivate Analytics last year was 1.632, which is a rapid growth from the previous year.
We hope that readers would be our next authors. SOLA welcomes submission from the international community in meteorology, atmospheric sciences, and the related fields.