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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 dedicated to the publication and public discussion of studies investigating Earth's atmosphere and the underlying chemical and physical processes. ACP publishes studies with important implications for our understanding of the state and behaviour of the atmosphere and climate, including the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere.

Topics include gases, aerosols, clouds, precipitation, dynamics, radiation, and their role in the Earth's climate system (including the biosphere, hydrosphere, and cryosphere). Research activities include laboratory studies, field measurements, remote sensing, modelling and data analysis, and machine learning (for details see journal subject areas).

Transparent peer review for 20 years: for 20 years, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics has been a pioneer in transparent peer review. Submitted preprints, reviews, and author replies are posted and permanently archived on the journal website. This unique approach ensures the highest levels of scientific transparency and integrity, as well as fair peer review for authors.
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News

10 Oct 2024 New ACP Letter: The 2023 global warming spike was driven by the El Niño–Southern Oscillation

The rapid global warming of 2023 has led to concerns that it could be externally driven. Here the authors show that climate models subject only to internal variability predict such warming spikes but rarely (p~1.6 %). However, when a prolonged La Niña immediately precedes an El Niño, as occurred leading up to 2023, such spikes are not uncommon (p~10.3 %). Read more.

10 Oct 2024 New ACP Letter: The 2023 global warming spike was driven by the El Niño–Southern Oscillation

The rapid global warming of 2023 has led to concerns that it could be externally driven. Here the authors show that climate models subject only to internal variability predict such warming spikes but rarely (p~1.6 %). However, when a prolonged La Niña immediately precedes an El Niño, as occurred leading up to 2023, such spikes are not uncommon (p~10.3 %). Read more.

13 Sep 2024 EGU webinar: how to write a research paper

You have worked hard to get your results, analyse the data, and draw conclusions from your research topic. Now it is time to write up! Please find information on EGU's webinar "How to write a research paper" here.

13 Sep 2024 EGU webinar: how to write a research paper

You have worked hard to get your results, analyse the data, and draw conclusions from your research topic. Now it is time to write up! Please find information on EGU's webinar "How to write a research paper" here.

Highlight articles

10 Oct 2024
Stable and unstable fall motions of plate-like ice crystal analogues
Jennifer R. Stout, Christopher D. Westbrook, Thorwald H. M. Stein, and Mark W. McCorquodale
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 11133–11155, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-11133-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-11133-2024, 2024
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09 Sep 2024
Biological and dust aerosols as sources of ice-nucleating particles in the eastern Mediterranean: source apportionment, atmospheric processing and parameterization
Kunfeng Gao, Franziska Vogel, Romanos Foskinis, Stergios Vratolis, Maria I. Gini, Konstantinos Granakis, Anne-Claire Billault-Roux, Paraskevi Georgakaki, Olga Zografou, Prodromos Fetfatzis, Alexis Berne, Alexandros Papayannis, Konstantinos Eleftheridadis, Ottmar Möhler, and Athanasios Nenes
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 9939–9974, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-9939-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-9939-2024, 2024
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Recent papers

11 Oct 2024
Rate coefficients for the reactions of OH radicals with C3–C11 alkanes determined by the relative-rate technique
Yanyan Xin, Chengtang Liu, Xiaoxiu Lun, Shuyang Xie, Junfeng Liu, and Yujing Mu
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 11409–11429, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-11409-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-11409-2024, 2024
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11 Oct 2024
Global modeling of aerosol nucleation with a semi-explicit chemical mechanism for highly oxygenated organic molecules (HOMs)
Xinyue Shao, Minghuai Wang, Xinyi Dong, Yaman Liu, Wenxiang Shen, Stephen R. Arnold, Leighton A. Regayre, Meinrat O. Andreae, Mira L. Pöhlker, Duseong S. Jo, Man Yue, and Ken S. Carslaw
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 11365–11389, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-11365-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-11365-2024, 2024
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11 Oct 2024
Combining observations and simulations to investigate the small-scale variability of surface solar irradiance under continental cumulus clouds
Zili He, Quentin Libois, Najda Villefranque, Hartwig Deneke, Jonas Witthuhn, and Fleur Couvreux
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 11391–11408, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-11391-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-11391-2024, 2024
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11 Oct 2024
Measurement report: Urban ammonia and amines in Houston, Texas
Lee Tiszenkel, James H. Flynn, and Shan-Hu Lee
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 11351–11363, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-11351-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-11351-2024, 2024
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11 Oct 2024
How to trace the origins of short-lived atmospheric species in the Arctic
Anderson Da Silva, Louis Marelle, Jean-Christophe Raut, Yvette Gramlich, Karolina Siegel, Sophie L. Haslett, Claudia Mohr, and Jennie L. Thomas
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-2839,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-2839, 2024
Preprint under review for ACP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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Scheduled special issues

01 Aug 2024–31 Jan 2026 | ACP co-editors | Coordinators: Peter Haynes (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) and Rolf Müller (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) | Co-organizers: Suvarna Fadnavis (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India), Marc von Hobe (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany), E.N. Rajagopal (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India), and Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India) | Information
30 May 2024–31 May 2026 | ACP co-editors | Coordinators: Stelios Kazadzis (Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, Switzerland) and Manvendra Krishna Dubey (Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States) | Co-organizers: Thorsten Fehr (European Space Agency, France), Vassilis Amiridis (National Observatory of Athens, Greece), Cyrille Flamant (French National Centre for Scientific Research, France), Eleni Marinou (National Observatory of Athens, Greece), Harri Kokkola (Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland), Marco Gaetani (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia, Italy), and Oleg Dubovik (French National Centre for Scientific Research, France) | Information
10 Nov 2023–indefinite | ACP co-editors | Coordinators: Aurélien Dommergue (Grenoble Alpes University, France) and Ralf Ebinghaus (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany)| Co-organizers: Ashu Dastoor (Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada), Helene Angot (CNRS/Grenoble Alpes University, France), Aryeh Feinberg (Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Che-Jen Lin (Lamar University, USA), Andrei Ryjkov (Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada), Oleg Travnikov (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia), and Qingru Wu (State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, China) | Information
02 Nov 2023–31 Oct 2026 | ACP co-editors | Coordinators: Maria Kanakidou (University of Crete, Greece) and James Allan (University of Manchester, UK) | Co-organizers: Suzanne Fietz (Stellenbosch University, South Afrca), Douglas Hamilton (North Carolina State University, USA), Akinori Ito (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan), Morgane Perron (Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin, France), and Mingjin Tang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) | Information
01 Oct 2023–31 Aug 2025 | ACP co-editors | Coordinators: Lisa Whalley (University of Leeds, United Kingdom), Manabu Shiraiwa (University of California, Irvine, United States), | Co-organizers: Christopher Cantrell (Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, France), Valérie Gros (French National Centre for Scientific Research, France), and Piero Di Carlo (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy) | Information

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