J. Meteor. Res.  2014, Vol. 28 Issue (5): 669-670   PDF    
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13351-014-5000-8
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DING Yihui,WU Guoxiong,Da-Lin ZHANG,ZHANG Renhe,Co-Chief Editors. 2014.
Editorial
J. Meteor. Res., 28(5): 669-670
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13351-014-5000-8
Editorial
DING Yihui, WU Guoxiong, Da-Lin ZHANG, ZHANG Renhe, Co-Chief    

As we will soon celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Meteorological Society(CMS),Acta Meteorologic a Sinica(AMS),which was originally named as Bulletin of the Chinese Meteorologic al Society,has gone through 89 years of development and excitement since her first issue in July 1925. Accordingto archived documents(CMS Editorial Committee,1925),AMS was founded to report the research findingsof Chinese meteorologists,record their recommendations for improving meteorological services, and share theircommon meteorological interests in order to promote the growth of AMS such that more members could beinspired to conduct atmospheric research and meteorological knowledge would be better disseminated to and benefit the general public. By upholding and carrying forward this purpose,AMS has published many highlyvaluable scientific papers. Some could be treated as classical articles,which have produced important influenceson both domestic and international meteorological communities and the related fields.

To inherit the tradition of AMS,a special issue is published on the occasion of celebrating the CMS' 90thanniversary to summarize innovative achievements of Chinese meteorologists and collect their fine works thatwere published during the past decade. This special issue consists of 19 articles documenting recent adv ancesin the fields of climate and global changes,earth-climate system dynamics and numerical modeling,theory and teleconnection of the general circulations,front-cyclone and typhoon dynamics,numerical weather prediction and data assimilation,air-ocean and air-l and interactions,atmospheric physics, and meteorological measurements,etc. These articles also provide the future research directions and prospects of various subdisplines froma global scientific perspective.

The articles in this special issue reflect well the flourishing expansion of China's meteorological sciencesduring the past decade. In particular,rapid growth in computing power has boosted the development and applications of numerical weather prediction models at progressively higher resolutions, and of climate modelswith more realistic physics parameterizations. With the improved numerical models,we have seen considerableprogress in modeling the structures and evolution of severe convective storms and tropical cyclones, and in predicting or simulating extreme weather and climate events. In addition,rapid emergence has occurred in manyinterdisciplinary fields,such as l and -surface processes,satellite remote sensing,meteorological data integration,atmospheric chemistry, and environmental sciences. Accompanied with the prosperity of these fields are theincreased digitization,electronic networking, and internationalization of AMS,which are also today's trendsof many international journals. Up to now,over 400 past and current issues of AMS in Chinese and /or English editions have been all archived on the AMS' website(http://www.cmsjournal.net)to allow free downloadworldwide.

As for internationalization,the English edition of AMS has been accepted by Thomson Reuters for inclusionin the "Science Citation Index-Exp and ed"(SCIE)database beginning with its 2007 volume. A close collaboration with Springer,which is a well-known publisher,was established in 2011 to improve publication quality and international circulation. The online manuscript processing platform of Thomson Reuters was adopted in 2012to expedite the publication process of AMS. In 2014,the English edition of AMS was renamed as Journal of Mete orologic al Rese arch(JMR), and received national government funds from "Enhancing International Influences of Scientific Journals Project" to improve the publishing infrastructure. As a result,AMS/JMR's impact factor,annual citation rates, and international download keep rising steadily during the past three years. In particular,a highly international Editorial Board has been formulated to ensure the publication quality . Moreover,JMRhas participated in the journal exhibition activity during the annual meeting of the American MeteorologicalSociety in 2014.

"Investigating the meteorological essence of the variable sky,reporting innovative findings in atmosphericresearch," affirming the awareness of originality, and keeping raising the publication bar and improving thepublishing quality have been the aims of AMS/JMR during the past decade. As a consequence,AMS hadbeen awarded consecutively during the years of 2007-2011 by the China Association for Science and Technologyunder its "Elite Science and Technology Journals Promotion Project." In today's information and big-dataera,innovative ways of running journal publication,building a first-class journal,expediting the publicationprocess, and improving international visibility and accessibility,are still the goals of our current practice and future effort.

We must acknowledge that the above-mentioned achievements of AMS/JMR would not be possible withoutmuch dedicated effort from several generations of editorial board members and senior scholars, and valuablecontributions from a large number of previous authors and reviewers during the past nine decades. Many oftheir manuscripts with excellent science and innovative findings have been first published in AMS/JMR. Thishas not only enhanced the reputation of AMS/JMR and promoted the meteorological development in China,but also elev ated the stature of China's meteorological sciences as a whole. On this special occasion,we wish tothank them all for their long-term dedication and support. We would expect to receive the continued concerns and support from editorial board members,authors and reviewers as well as readers of JMR at home and abroad in order to make this journal better and better for many years to come. In particular,we hope thatJMR could become a more influential international journal after steadily growing for another decade,namely,by her centennial birthday.

References
Chinese Meteorological Society Editorial Committee, 1925: An account of the launch of Bulletin of the Chinese Meteorological Society. Bull. Chinese Meteor. Soc., 1, 1.