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Executive editors : Ken Carslaw & Barbara Ervens
eISSN: ACP 1680-7324, ACPD 1680-7375

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) is a not-for-profit international scientific journal publishing research with important implications for our understanding of the state and behaviour of the atmosphere and climate. Find details of the aims and scope.

ACP publishes research articles, short-format letters, reviews, opinions, and several other manuscript types.

Transparent peer review for 25 years: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics has been a pioneer in transparent peer review. Submitted preprints, reviewer reports, all manuscript versions, and author replies are posted and permanently archived. This approach ensures the highest levels of scientific transparency and integrity, as well as fair peer review for authors. Read more about ACP's publishing model.

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News

03 Sep 2025 ACP's publishing model combining open access and public peer review

Current and former executive editors of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics reflect on 25 years of open access and public peer review, highlighting the pioneering role of ACP since its launch in 2001. Please read more.

03 Sep 2025 ACP's publishing model combining open access and public peer review

Current and former executive editors of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics reflect on 25 years of open access and public peer review, highlighting the pioneering role of ACP since its launch in 2001. Please read more.

21 Aug 2025 Climate forcing due to future ozone changes: an intercomparison of metrics and methods

The authors used 7 climate models that include atmospheric chemistry and find that in a scenario with weak controls on air quality, the warming effects (over 2015 to 2050) of decreases in ozone-depleting substances and increases in air quality pollutants are approximately equal and would make ozone the second highest contributor to warming over this period. Please read more.

21 Aug 2025 Climate forcing due to future ozone changes: an intercomparison of metrics and methods

The authors used 7 climate models that include atmospheric chemistry and find that in a scenario with weak controls on air quality, the warming effects (over 2015 to 2050) of decreases in ozone-depleting substances and increases in air quality pollutants are approximately equal and would make ozone the second highest contributor to warming over this period. Please read more.

16 Jun 2025 ACP welcomes Tanja Schuck as new senior editor and thanks Gabriele Stiller and Rolf Müller for their important contributions

We are pleased to announce that Tanja Schuck has agreed to take over the role of senior editor from Gabriele Stiller and Rolf Müller who stepped down after 4 years of dedicated service. Please read more.

16 Jun 2025 ACP welcomes Tanja Schuck as new senior editor and thanks Gabriele Stiller and Rolf Müller for their important contributions

We are pleased to announce that Tanja Schuck has agreed to take over the role of senior editor from Gabriele Stiller and Rolf Müller who stepped down after 4 years of dedicated service. Please read more.

Highlight articles

21 Oct 2025
The role of the tropical carbon balance in determining the large atmospheric CO2 growth rate in 2023
Liang Feng, Paul I. Palmer, Luke Smallman, Jingfeng Xiao, Paolo Cristofanelli, Ove Hermansen, John Lee, Casper Labuschagne, Simonetta Montaguti, Steffen M. Noe, Stephen M. Platt, Xinrong Ren, Martin Steinbacher, and Irène Xueref-Remy
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 13053–13076, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-13053-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-13053-2025, 2025
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20 Oct 2025
MOSAiC studies of long-lasting mixed-phase cloud events and analysis of the liquid-phase properties of Arctic clouds
Cristofer Jimenez, Albert Ansmann, Kevin Ohneiser, Hannes Griesche, Ronny Engelmann, Martin Radenz, Julian Hofer, Dietrich Althausen, Daniel A. Knopf, Sandro Dahlke, Johannes Bühl, Holger Baars, Patric Seifert, and Ulla Wandinger
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 12955–12981, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-12955-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-12955-2025, 2025
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Recent papers

21 Oct 2025
Simulated mixing in the UTLS by small-scale turbulence using multi-scale chemistry-climate model MECO(n)
Chun Hang Chau, Peter Hoor, and Holger Tost
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 13123–13140, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-13123-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-13123-2025, 2025
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21 Oct 2025
Contributions of primary anthropogenic sources and rapid secondary transformations to organic aerosol pollution in Nanchang, Central China
Wei Guo, Zicong Li, Renguo Zhu, Zhongkui Zhou, Hongwei Xiao, and Huayun Xiao
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 13221–13243, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-13221-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-13221-2025, 2025
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21 Oct 2025
Lagrangian single-column modeling of Arctic air mass transformation during HALO-(𝒜 𝒞)3
Michail Karalis, Gunilla Svensson, Manfred Wendisch, and Michael Tjernström
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 13177–13198, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-13177-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-13177-2025, 2025
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21 Oct 2025
Impact of cirrus on extratropical tropopause structure
Nicolas Emig, Annette K. Miltenberger, Peter M. Hoor, and Andreas Petzold
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 13077–13101, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-13077-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-13077-2025, 2025
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21 Oct 2025
Dust radiative forcing in CMIP6 Earth System models: insights from the AerChemMIP piClim-2xdust experiment
Ove W. Haugvaldstad, Dirk Olivié, Trude Storelvmo, and Michael Schulz
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 13199–13219, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-13199-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-13199-2025, 2025
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Scheduled special issues

01 Jul 2025–30 Jun 2027 | ACP editors | Coordinators: Peter Haynes (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) and Simone Tilmes (NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States) | Co-organizers: Peter Hoor (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany) and Aurélien Podglajen (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, France) | Information
Early results from EarthCARE (AMT/ACP/GMD inter-journal SI)
04 Mar 2025–28 Feb 2027 | ACP editors | Coordinators: Timothy Garrett (University of Utah, United States) and Matthew Lebsock (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States) | Co-organizer: Robin Hogan (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, United Kingdom) | Information
01 Feb 2025–31 Dec 2027 | ACP editors | Coordinators: Eija Asmi (Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland) and Zhanqing Li (University of Maryland Extension, USA) | Co-organizer: Stelios Kazadzis (Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, Switzerland) | Information
24 Jan 2025–30 Jun 2026 | ACP editors | Coordinators: Christoph Gerbig (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany) and Tanja Schuck (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)| Co-organizers: Huilin Chen (Nanjing University, China), Bo Yao (Fudan University, China), and Pengfei Han (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) | Information
01 Oct 2024–30 Sep 2026 | ACP editors | Coordinators: Tanja Schuck (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) and Christoph Gerbig (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany) | Information

Notice on the current situation in Ukraine

To show our support for Ukraine, all fees for papers from authors (first or corresponding authors) affiliated to Ukrainian institutions are automatically waived, regardless if these papers are co-authored by scientists affiliated to Russian and/or Belarusian institutions. The only exception will be if the corresponding author or first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) are from a Russian and/or Belarusian institution, in that case the APCs are not waived.

In accordance with current European restrictions, Copernicus Publications does not step into business relations with and issue APC-invoices (articles processing charges) to Russian and Belarusian institutions. The peer-review process and scientific exchange of our journals including preprint posting is not affected. However, these restrictions require that the first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) has an affiliation and invoice address outside Russia or Belarus.