Environmental Science: Atmospheres
Interdisciplinary open access journal advancing the understanding of atmospheric science and related challenges.
Editor-in-Chief: Neil Donahue
Publishing model: Gold open access
Environmental Science: Atmospheres is a gold open access journal committed to bringing the wider environmental science and climate change communities together in a fresh, open approach. We cover the full breadth of atmospheric science and link fundamental and applied research.
Scope
Chemical processes, interactions between chemical and physical systems, and environmental change are central, as is environmental change driven by natural or anthropogenic causes, including emissions from natural and human systems.
Environmental Science: Atmospheres welcomes contributions in thermodynamics, microphysics, and chemistry of multiphase systems coupling gases, aerosols and clouds, as well as photochemistry and radiative transfer. All aspects of science are covered, including in situ and laboratory measurements, computation chemistry and chemical transport modelling, instrumentation, and remote sensing.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Aerosols
- Biomass burning
- Biosphere interactions
- Clouds
- Climate variability, drivers and consequences
- Computational chemistry
- Deposition
- Dust
- Emissions
- Field measurements
- Gases
- Health effects
- Hydrosphere interactions
- Indoor air
- Instrumentation
- Modelling
- Isotopes
- Laboratory measurements
- Multiphase chemistry
- Pollution mitigation
- Precipitation
- Radiation
- Remote sensing
Readership
Our readership is interdisciplinary including researchers throughout the wider environmental science and climate change communities, appealing to both those working in fundamental and applied atmospheric chemistry.
Journal Impact Factor
3.2 (2025)
First decision time (all)
30.5 days
First decision time (peer reviewed)
42.5 days
Indexing
eISSN: 2634-3606
Indexed in: Scopus, Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), ResearchGate
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