There is a valuable new publication that has been introduced by the The Meteorological Society of Japan . It is called SOLA and information is available online as to how to submit papers (see).
As communicated me by Dr. Takehiko Satomura of the Climate Physics Lab., Division of Earth and Planetary Science at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan,
“SOLA (Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere) is a new electronic journal published by the Meteorological Society of Japan (MSJ) started from 1 January 2005. SOLA is a medium for the electronic publication of short letters in the atmospheric science and related interdisciplinary studies. It is an electronic Journal open to the public through the Internet
The value of this new journal is that it very effectively utilizes the current technology to provide rapid dissemination of new and important reserarch results, without compromising rigorous peer review. The availability of such a journal from such a prestigiouos professional society as the MSJ eliminates the seemingly arbitrary rejection of even reviewing research papers, as identified on James Annan’s website with respect to his submission of a paper to Nature. It will also eliminate unreasonable delay in the publication of papers (my 2005 paper with Christopher Davey entitled “Microclimate exposures of surface-based weather stations - implications for the assessment of long-term temperature trends” took over three years to publish in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society!).
I urge the climate community to ultilize this effective new resource, and look forward to alerting readers of the Climate Science weblog to research papers that are published in SOLA.
Great news.
I welcome the days where scientist will be able to publish their finding without censoring based on the interest that the finding promote.
Comment by Sylvain — June 1, 2006 @ 12:29 pm
Your paper concerning microclimate impact on suface data collection fits well with what I recently noticed in Nevada. Along US 50 is what appears to be a series of weather data recording stations at intervals along the route. I say “appears to be” because of the anemometer atop each one though they are somewhat larger than stations I am used to seeing. In any case, I noticed that all of these stations appeared to be 3 to 5 meters from the asphalt roadway and in some cases are at intersections with roadway on two sides of them. The thought crossed my mind that being so close to the ashpalt roadway could cause a positve temperature bias in the data collected. I wondered how long before this data would be incorporated into someone’s global warming studies.
I believe the stations I saw were part of the Nevada RWIS network.
Comment by Casual Reader — June 5, 2006 @ 12:54 pm
I wondered how long before this data would be incorporated into someone’s global warming studies.
You can find out for yourself easily enough. You can go to the library and read papers that use temp networks and find how many papers use local/regional networks. You’ll find, I’ll guess, zero.
Best,
D
Comment by Dano — June 5, 2006 @ 2:29 pm