Journal of the EMS: first papers out!

In April 2024 the EMS has launched the Journal of the European Meteorological Society (JEMS) in order to advance the visibility of the EMS and to start a European platform to share research outcomes in atmospheric sciences and operational meteorological. We are happy to announce the first articles have been published, and are available through open access! These articles are part of a Special Section to honor Prof. Ehrhard Raschke. They are summary papers which also feature an outlook into what might come or should be done. Here a quick summary on the content of the papers:

• “What if? Numerical weather prediction at the crossroads” by Peter Bauer provides an outlook on the future of operational weather prediction given the recent evolution in science, computing and machine learning. Very interesting is to read about the potential of machine learning.
• Atsumu Ohmura, a pioneer of surface radiation budget measurements with climate quality, gives insight and an update on trends in the longwave radiation budget at the surface with his paper: Decadal variation of longwave downwelling and net radiation as observed at the surface with implication for climate sensitivity: Based on pyrgeometer and pyranometer measurements
• William B. Rossow reflects on the concept of cloud-climate feedback that was introduced 50 years ago. He draws on his deep insight on this research and calls for  more comprehensive observation-based analysis of cloud feedbacks on weather, seasonal and interannual scales which is now possible. His paper is entitled: Evolution of the concept of cloud-climate feedbacks

Soon the first articles dedicated to the 25-year anniversary of the EMS will appear online too!

Potential authors are invited and encouraged to contribute to JEMS by submitting articles. This is particularly attractive until January 1^st 2025 since JEMS offers a 100% APC waiver, so your publication will be free of charge!