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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. The journal aims to publish peer-reviewed short scientific papers in the atmospheric and related interdisciplinary sciences. SOLA, derived from the Japanese word for "sky," was first published in 2004.
We are pleased to publish 56 papers in Volume 20, 2024, including the Special Edition of Advances in Studies of Torrential-Rain-Producing Quasi-Stationary Band-Shaped Precipitating Systems, or "Senjo-Kousuitai" and the Special Edition of the Frontier of Atmospheric Science with High Performance Computing. The Special Edition on Recent Advances in the Global Energy and Water Cycle Exchanges (GEWEX) Sciences will call for papers from January 2025.
The Editorial Committee of SOLA presents the SOLA Award to one or two outstanding papers published each year. The SOLA Award for 2023 was presented to Kanada and Nishii (2023) and Suzuki et al. (2023). The SOLA Award for 2024 will be announced shortly, by the end of January 2025.
SOLA will transition to Springer for publication in 2026. The submission deadline for the current ScholarOne system is 1600 JST on 29 August 2025. After September 2025, manuscripts should be submitted to Springer’s SNAPP system, and, upon acceptance, they will be published by Springer. Moreover, the deadline for acceptance of manuscripts under review in ScholarOne for publication on J-STAGE is 20 November 2025. Manuscripts accepted after this date will be published by Springer. Please note that the Article Processing Charge differs depending on whether the article is published on J-STAGE or by Springer.
We hope that SOLA becomes one of your preferred platforms for disseminating your research achievements. SOLA welcomes submissions from the international community in meteorology, atmospheric sciences, and related fields.
