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Papers are invited for a Special Issue of Atmosphere entitled "Interactions Among Aerosols, Clouds, and Radiation"

  • 1.  Papers are invited for a Special Issue of Atmosphere entitled "Interactions Among Aerosols, Clouds, and Radiation"

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    This Special Issue will advance current understanding of aerosol–cloud–radiation interactions and their implications for weather and climate systems. We invite contributions that employ observational, theoretical, and modeling approaches to investigate the physical and dynamical processes governing these interactions across multiple spatial and temporal scales.

    Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

    1. Observational studies of aerosols, clouds, and radiation using satellite remote sensing, ground-based networks, radar, and lidar measurements, emphasizing understanding of the processes involved and comparison between aspects;
    2. Model development and evaluation related to aerosol, cloud, and radiation processes, encompassing large-eddy simulations (LESs), cloud-permitting and regional models, chemistry–climate models, and numerical weather prediction frameworks;
    3. Process-level investigations of cloud microphysics and aerosol–cloud interactions, including ice nucleation, cloud droplet activation, autoconversion, accretion, deposition, evaporation, and the dynamics of stratocumulus, shallow cumulus, and deep convective systems;
    4. Aerosol-influenced meteorological and climatic phenomena, such as monsoon systems over South Asia, East Asia, North America, and Africa; wildfires and biomass burning; climate change and global warming; the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO); and Rossby wave dynamics.
    5. Advancing Energy Resilience through Cloud-Based Solar Forecasting.

    This Special Issue will integrate multidisciplinary perspectives and state-of-the-art methodologies to improve the representation of aerosol–cloud–radiation processes in models and enhance the predictability of weather and climate systems.

    Dr. Anning Cheng from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Dr. Shanru Tian from the University of Texas at Arlington are serving as Guest Editors for this issue. Based on your expertise in this field, we think you could make an excellent contribution. For more information on this Special Issue, please visit the Special Issue website at:

    https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/special_issues/IX7LLF6IXA

    The submission deadline is 12 December 2026. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline, as papers will be published on an ongoing basis if accepted for publication following peer review. Submitted manuscripts should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

    Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal. It is abstracted and indexed by Scopus, SCIE, Ei Compendex, Inspec, DOAJ. The Impact Factor of the Journal is 2.6. On average, a first decision is provided to authors 20.4 days after submission, and the median publication time is 2.6 days. The financial discount may be offered after the detailed information is checked by the Guest Editors and the Journal Office. 

    An article processing charge (APC) of 2400 CHF currently applies to all papers accepted after peer review. You may be entitled to a discount code if you previously reviewed for MDPI or if your institution is a participating member in MDPI's Institutional Open Access Program (https://www.mdpi.com/ioap). 

    If you require further assistance, please contact Dr. Anning Cheng <anning.cheng@noaa.gov>, Dr. Shanru Tian <shanru.tian@uta.edu>, or the assistant editor, Ms. Joyce Shi, at <joyce.shi@mdpi.com>.



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    Shanru Tian
    Post doc researcher
    University of Texas at Arlington
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