Early Career Scientists' (ECS) Contributions to Meteorology (2024)

Dear Colleagues,

In 2022, we launched a Special Issue (SI) to provide an opportunity for early career scientists in meteorology to share their valuable results with the scientific community. Due to the success of the initiative, in 2023, we decided to launch a second edition of this SI. Both Issues attracted many young scientists, and a number of relevant papers have already been published. For this reason, we have decided to launch a 2024 edition of this SI.

As with the previous editions, manuscripts on all meteorological topics can be submitted. Examples of exciting subjects that could be addressed in this SI include the following:

• Current challenging areas in weather models, including (but not limited to) data assimilation techniques, optimization of parameterization schemes, model calibrations, and ensemble forecasting.
• The rise of machine learning in weather forecasting.
• Numerical weather prediction in the lower stratosphere.
• Weather drones, or meteo-drones: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that record weather conditions.
• Remote sensing in meteorology (e.g., innovative studies focusing on cloud microphysics, wind profile satellite observations).
• Urban weather: urban heat islands, the interaction between meteorological and social worlds, and local nowcasting tools for the operational spaces of drones (low atmosphere).

This Special Issue will publish original research articles and reviews where the first author is an early career scientist (a student, a PhD candidate, or a practicing scientist who received their highest certificate within the past 5 years). We will provide additional discounts on the APC (article processing charges) upon request, as well as additional guidance on how to address reviewers’ comments, while the publication process will be as transparent and efficient as possible. The submissions will be assessed by at least two referees, as rigorously as any other paper submitted to Meteorology.

Dr. Edoardo Bucchignani
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Meteorology is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• numerical weather prediction models
• remote sensing
• model assessment
• extreme events
• urban weather
• small-scale processes

• Early Career Scientists' (ECS) Contributions to Meteorology (2022) in Meteorology (15 articles)
• Early Career Scientists' (ECS) Contributions to Meteorology (2023) in Meteorology (12 articles)