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PLOS Climate: Atmosphere & Oceans section

Jamie Males PLOS Climate section
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SECTION EDITORS

Jason Evans
UNSW- Australia
Olivia Romppainen-Martius
University of Bern, Switzerland

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SECTION SCOPE

The PLOS Climate Atmosphere & Oceans section covers all aspects of atmospheric science and oceanography in the context of the climate system, including (but not limited to):

Global and regional climate modelling
Earth system modelling
Atmospheric dynamics
Atmospheric chemistry
Land-atmosphere interactions
Ocean-atmosphere interactions
Extreme weather events
Climate variability
Sea level
Tropical meteorology

For a full list of the Academic Editors serving in this section, please visit the PLOS Climate editorial board page.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN THIS SECTION

Dhara C, Deshpande A, Roxy MK, Dalpadado P, Shrestha MS (2025) A post-AR6 update on observed and projected climate change in India. PLOS Clim 4(11): e0000724. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000724

Büchau YG, Bange J (2025) Quantification of natural CO2 emissions from mofettes using a low-cost sensor network at the Starzach site in South-West Germany. PLOS Clim 4(11): e0000741. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000741

McLaurin L, Yuter SE, Burris K, Miller MA (2025) The power of hourly weather data: Observed air temperature climate trends for pragmatic decision-making. PLOS Clim 4(11): e0000736. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000736

Hewitt HT, Flato G, O’Rourke E, Dunne JP, Adloff F, Arblaster JM, et al. (2025) Towards provision of regularly updated climate data from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project. PLOS Clim 4(10): e0000708. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000708

Westgate A, Kravtsov S (2025) Comparison of multidecadal variability in climate reanalyses and global models. PLOS Clim 4(10): e0000519. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000519

Oldham-Dorrington J, Quinting J, Sobolowski S (2025) “The work of thought”–The machine learning revolution can be a revolution for our understanding of the Earth System. PLOS Clim 4(9): e0000710. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000710

Busatto J, Bellucci A, Adduce C, Yang C (2025) The impact of horizontal resolution on the representation of thermal air-sea interaction of the Agulhas system in coupled climate-models. PLOS Clim 4(9): e0000680. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000680

Kim S, Choi J, Lee S, Choi J (2025) Unsupervised concept discovery for deep weather forecast models with high-resolution radar data. PLOS Clim 4(9): e0000633. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000633

Kyei-Manuh S, Osei MA, Aryee JNA, Quansah E, Obuobie E, Amekudzi LK (2025) Lightning and thunderstorms, the source of severe weather over Ghana, West Africa. PLOS Clim 4(9): e0000703. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000703

Campos P, Castillo R (2025) Antarctic oscillation: Its influence on the interannual variability of precipitation in the Indian monsoon region. PLOS Clim 4(7): e0000671. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000671

Francey RJ, Frederiksen JS (2025) Systematic anomalies in the recent global atmospheric CO2 concentration. PLOS Clim 4(8): e0000682. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000682

Chaki S, Samad MA, Mallik MAK, Hassan SMQ (2025) Forecasting human heat stress: Insights from observations and WRF simulations during Bangladesh heatwaves. PLOS Clim 4(8): e0000690. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000690

Cimadevilla E, Iturbide M, Cofiño AS, Fernández J, Sitz LE, Palacio A, et al. (2025) The IPCC Interactive Atlas DataLab: Online reusability for regional climate change assessment. PLOS Clim 4(6): e0000644. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000644

Xu K, Lauenroth W (2025) Biome-aligned temperature zones for interpretable climate classification via average monthly temperatures. PLOS Clim 4(6): e0000579. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000579

Ferrer EM, Pezner AK, Eddebbar YA, Breitburg D, Crowe S, Garçon V, et al. (2025) Why aquatic deoxygenation belongs in the planetary boundary framework. PLOS Clim 4(5): e0000619. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000619

Nizar S, Thomas J, Jainet P, Sudheer K (2025) A novel technique for nowcasting extreme rainfall events using early microphysical signatures of cloud development. PLOS Clim 4(5): e0000497. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000497

Steensen BM, Myhre G, Hodnebrog Ø, Alterskjær K (2025) How climate models reproduce the observed increase in extreme precipitation over Europe. PLOS Clim 4(4): e0000442. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000442

Liu Y, Xu Q, Wang Z, Qi L, Lu J (2025) Estimation of carbon dioxide emissions from the cement industry in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei using neural networks. PLOS Clim 4(3): e0000544. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000544

Douville H (2025) Doing better rather than promising more: A basic principle applicable to both climate modelling and climate policies. PLOS Clim 4(1): e0000466. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000466

Furue R, Fukao Y, Sugioka H (2024) Linear response of deep ocean to a moving tropical cyclone. PLOS Clim 3(12): e0000376. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000376

Samset BH, Wilcox LJ, Allen RJ (2024) Broader research efforts and assessments needed to uncover the complex climate effects of regional changes in aerosol emissions. PLOS Clim 3(10): e0000508. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000508

Masson-Delmotte V (2024) The physical science basis of climate change empowering transformations, insights from the IPCC AR6 for a climate research agenda grounded in ethics. PLOS Clim 3(8): e0000451. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000451

Chiang JCH, Broccoli AJ (2024) Orbital eccentricity and Earth’s seasonal cycle. PLOS Clim 3(7): e0000436. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000436

Fu R, Fu K (2024) A regime switch error correction model to project sea level rise. PLOS Clim 3(6): e0000369. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000369

Brown JK, Pressburger L, Snyder A, Dorheim K, Smith SJ, Tebaldi C, et al. (2024) Matilda v1.0: An R package for probabilistic climate projections using a reduced complexity climate model. PLOS Clim 3(5): e0000295. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000295

Sahilu M, Tekalign S, Mohammed Y, Sishaw T, Kedir H, Asfaw S (2024) Spatiotemporal trends and variability of rainfall across agro-ecologies in East Guji Zone, Southeast Ethiopia. PLOS Clim 3(3): e0000361. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000361

Poletti AN, Frierson DMW, Aerenson T, Nikumbh A, Carroll R, Henshaw W, et al. (2024) Atmosphere and ocean energy transport in extreme warming scenarios. PLOS Clim 3(2): e0000343. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000343

van Beekvelt D, Garcia-Marti I, de Baar J (2024) Towards high-resolution gridded climatology stemming from the combination of official and crowdsourced weather observations using multi-fidelity methods. PLOS Clim 3(1): e0000216. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000216

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