SOLA @Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

The Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere (SOLA) is an international Open Access journal published by the Meteorological Society of Japan. It aims to publish peer-reviewed short scientific papers in the atmospheric and related interdisciplinary sciences.

The pronunciation of "SOLA" sounds similar to a Japanese word "sora" meaning the sky in English.

This journal is available online at J-STAGE (Open Access).
(J-STAGE SOLA home)

Online ISSN : 1349-6476
2022 IMPACT FACTOR 1.9

2022 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics: Meteorology and Atmospheric Science category)

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January 1, 2025: Call for Papers.
"Recent Advances in the Global Energy and Water Cycle Exchanges (GEWEX) Sciences" in the Special Edition of Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere (SOLA).
January 1, 2025: Announcement of transfer schedule to Springer.
SOLA will transition to Springer for publication in 2026. The submission deadline for the current ScholarOne system is 1600 JST on August 29, 2025. After September 2025, manuscripts should be submitted to Springer’s SNAPP system, and, upon acceptance, they will be published by Springer. Moreover, the deadline for acceptance of manuscripts under review in ScholarOne for publication on J-STAGE is November 20, 2025. Manuscripts accepted after this date will be published by Springer. Please note that the Article Processing Charge differs depending on whether the article is published on J-STAGE or by Springer.
July 16, 2024: Guide for Authors Renewed
SOLA will be published as a Springer/Nature journal starting from the 2026 edition. Manuscripts submitted after September 2025 and those accepted after January 2026 will be published as S/N Journal articles with a different APC from the current regulation and a different editing platform from the current system. It should be remarked that there is possibility that the manuscript submitted in 2025 and accepted much earlier than 1 January 2026 must wait for publication until the S/N publication platform opens. For manuscripts published as S/N Journal articles, please refer to the submission guidelines that will be independently provided soon later (as of 16 July 2024).
January 1, 2024: Guide for Authors Renewed
There is a change in the word count limitation for papers submitted in 2024 and afterwards. This is because Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, the sister journal, will cease publishing "Note" paper. In order to accommodate needs to publish short articles, SOLA will increase the word count limitation up to 3500 at the time of the acceptance. The current word count limitation of 3100 words still applies at the time of the initial submission, based on the total words included in the abstract and in the main body of the manuscript. The title, author names and affiliations, Acknowledgements, description of the Supplementary Material, References, figure captions and words within Supplementary Materials are not included in the word limit.
August 10, 2023: Call for Papers.
"Advances in Studies of Torrential-Rain-Producing Quasi-Stationary Band-Shaped Precipitating Systems, or 'Senjo-Kousuitai'" in the Special Edition of and Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere (SOLA).
Deadline extended until November 30, 2024 (closed)
February 17, 2023: Call for Papers.
"Research on extreme weather events that occurred around East Asia in 2017-2021" in the Special Edition/Collection of Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan (JMSJ) and Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere (SOLA). Deadline extended until March 31, 2023
February 3, 2023: Congratulations on the SOLA Award 2022!
We are pleased to announce that The SOLA Award in 2022 is awarded to the following papers:
Maejima, Y., T. Kawabata, H. Seko, and T. Miyoshi, 2022: Observing system simulation experiments of a rich phased array weather radar network covering Kyushu for the July 2020 heavy rainfall event. SOLA, 18, 25?32, doi:10.2151/sola.2022-005.
Nasuno, T., M. Nakano, H. Murakami, K. Kikuchi, and Y. Yamada, 2022: Impacts of midlatitude western North Pacific sea surface temperature anomaly on the subseasonal to seasonal tropical cyclone activity: Case study of the 2018 boreal summer. SOLA, 18, 88?95, doi:10.2151/sola.2022-015.
August 31, 2022: Call for Papers.
"Special Edition on the Frontier of Atmospheric Science with High Performance Computing" in the Special Edition/Collection of Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan (JMSJ) and Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere (SOLA).
Deadline extended until November 30, 2024 (closed)
February 4, 2022: Congratulations on the SOLA Award 2021!
We are pleased to announce that The SOLA Award in 2021 is awarded to the following papers:
Shiraishi and Shibata, Seasonal Variation in High Arctic Stratospheric Aerosols Observed by Lidar at Ny ?lesund, Svalbard between March 2014 and February 2018, SOLA, 2021, VOL.17,30-34, doi:10.2151/sola.2021-005
March 3, 2021: Call for Papers.
"Research on extreme weather events that occurred around East Asia in 2017-2021" in the Special Edition/Collection of Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan (JMSJ) and Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere (SOLA).
June 2020: Call for Papers.
gTyphoons in 2018?2019 h in the Special Edition/Collection of Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan (JMSJ) and Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere (SOLA).
This call for papers has ended.
Special Edition in SOLA (plan): Volume 17A, 2021

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