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, and 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.
Last year, we published 45 papers. Although the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is still an on-going issue, we are pleased to have a large number of submissions and to publish excellent research outcomes through rapid review cycles. We presented the SOLA Award in 2021 to the paper by Drs. Koichi Shiraishi and Takashi Shibata, entitled “Seasonal variation in high arctic stratospheric aerosols observed by lidar at Ny Ålesund, Svalbard between March 2014 and February 2018” (Shiraishi and Shibata 2021).
From this year, we have started the SOLA's printing style from a double column to a single column format. We hope that a single-column format will be useful to read a paper with various media.
We have been making continuous efforts to organize special editions coordinated jointly with Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. We are currently welcoming submissions to the Special Edition on the Frontier of Atmospheric Science with High Performance Computing.
We hope that SOLA is one of your preferred platforms where you can disseminate your research achievements. SOLA welcomes submission from the international community in meteorology, atmospheric sciences, and the related fields.
