AAS 2018 Esteemed Paper Prize and Editor's Award
Date：2018-03-07
Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (AAS) is pleased to announce its 2018 Esteemed Paper Prize to the papers published in 2016 in AAS for their exceptional contribution to the development of the journal. These papers were selected based on their download statistics from SpringerLink and their ISI citations. Enjoy, read and spread the word!
Indo-western Pacific ocean capacitor and coherent climate anomalies in post-ENSO summer: A review
Shang-Ping Xie*, Yu Kosaka, Yan Du, Kaiming Hu, Jasti S. Chowdary, Gang Huang
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-015-5192-6
The reliability of global and hemispheric surface temperature records
Philip Jones*
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-015-5194-4
Distinctive precursory air–sea signals between regular and super El Ni？os
Lin Chen, Tim Li*, Swadhin K. Behera, Takeshi Doi
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-016-5250-8
Abrupt summer warming and changes in temperature extremes over Northeast Asia since the mid-1990s: Drivers and physical processes
Buwen Dong*, Rowan T. Sutton, Wei Chen, Xiaodong Liu, Riyu Lu, Ying Sun
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-016-5247-3
Recent significant tornadoes in China
Ming Xue, Kun Zhao, Mingjung Wang, Zhaohui Li, Yongguang Zheng
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-016-6005-2
（*Corresponding author）
The Editor’s Award is given to an individual who has contributed a reviewer’s report of outstanding merit on a manuscript submitted for publication in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences(AAS). The quality of AAS depends essentially upon reviewers’ voluntary and painstaking efforts. Nominations are considered by the editors and editorial office, which make recommendations for final approval by the Editors-in-Chief.
The following reviewers are to be presented with a 2018 AAS Editor's Award:
| Name | Citation |
| Exarchou, Eleftheria (Spain) | For providing a very insightful and detailed review |
| Hayashi, Masahiko (Japan) | For careful, specific, and insightful reviews that were very helpful in editorial decisions. |
| Jung, Youngsun (USA ) | For multiple, detailed, insightful reviews that improved manuscripts. |
| Sarangi, Chandan (USA) | For his very timely and thoughtful review and very constructive comments that greatly improved the quality of the article he reviewed. |
| Schwartz, Craig (USA,) | For a very thoughtful review and very constructive and detailed comments that greatly improved the quality of the article he reviewed. |
| Screen, James (UK ) | For providing extensive, detailed and constructive comments on original and revised versions that led to substantial improvements of manuscripts. |
| Stein, Thorwald (UK) | For thoughtful, precise, and timely reviews. |
| SU, Xiang (China) | For timely and constructive reviews of multiple manuscripts. |
| Uotila, Petteri (Finland) | For multiple and timely reviews helping to maintain AAS’ high standards. |
| Yasunaga, Kazuaki (Japan) | For highly constructive, relevant, thorough, and timely reviews that significantly improved the quality of the submitted manuscripts. |
AAS would also like to thank the following two editors for organizing high-impact special issues published in 2018:
Xiangdong Zhang, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA，For organizing Special issue “Towards improving understanding and prediction of Arctic change and its linkage with Eurasian mid-latitude weather and climate”
https://link.springer.com/journal/376/35/1/
Xiquan Dong, University of North Dakota, USA，For organizing Special Issue “Aerosols, Clouds, Radiation, Precipitation, and Their Interactions”
https://link.springer.com/journal/376/35/2
