Springer introduces Climatic Change Letters

New section in Climatic Change to offer brief papers

Beginning in November 2009, Springer is inaugurating a new section within the journal Climatic Change called Climatic Change Letters. Similar in scope to Climatic Change, the Letters will provide a vehicle for rapid publication, offering short articles on new findings of interest to researchers in climate-related disciplines.

One of Springer's top journals, with an impact factor of 3.202, Climatic Change focuses on climatic variability and change from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Climatic Change Letters will publish brief articles that would be of interest to the same community. Articles will include original findings from models, experiments, observations, theoretical approaches, frameworks, applications and methods relevant to the multitude of disciplines covered by the main journal.

Editor-in-chief Prof. Michael Oppenheimer is supported by a distinguished editorial board. Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. A renowned scientist and author, Oppenheimer is a long-time participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

Dr. Robert K. Doe, Senior Publisher, Earth Sciences at Springer, said, "Climatic Change Letters has been in development for a number of years and this new section will make a valuable contribution in rapidly disseminating contemporary research to the international scientific community. I am pleased to see it launched in time for the United Nations Climate Change conference in Copenhagen in December 2009 as the importance of this interdisciplinary field will be a global highlight."