About the Journal

The journal is founded on the principle that climate science progresses through continuous scrutiny of prevailing assumptions, critical examination of explanatory frameworks, and the testing of competing ideas, supported by scientific analysis.

SCC provides a platform for the publication of original research articles, comprehensive review papers, methodological developments, data analyses, discussion papers, and other scholarly contributions that address climate variability and changes across spatial and temporal scales.

The journal aims to facilitate a broadened scientific discourse by welcoming studies representing a range of scientifically reasoned perspectives, including interpretations that re-examine dominant narratives about climate forcing, sensitivity, attribution, and risk. This openness is intended to promote constructive scientific engagement and deepen understanding of complex Earth-system phenomena through a multidisciplinary approach.

Recognizing that climate processes are emerging from complex interactions among the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and cryosphere, the journal welcomes contributions from a broad range of scientific domains such as:

Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Dynamics

Relevant topics include radiative transfer, atmospheric thermodynamics, large-scale circulation patterns, cloud-radiation interactions, aerosol-climate interactions, atmospheric variability and teleconnections.

Solar and Astronomical Influences on Climate

Relevant topics include solar irradiance variability, solar magnetic activity, solar–terrestrial interactions, cosmic ray–atmosphere interactions, planetary and orbital influences on climate variability, paleosolar activity, volcanic forcing, and the role of external natural drivers in long-term climate variability and paleoclimate evolution.

Meteorology and Weather-Climate Interactions

Areas of interest include large-scale and mesoscale circulation relevant to climate variability, boundary-layer processes affecting surface-atmosphere exchange, extreme weather in a climatic context, precipitation variability, heatwaves, and the linkage between short-term atmospheric variability and longer-term climatic trends.

Hydrology and Hydroclimatology

The journal considers studies on the hydrological cycle, precipitation-runoff relationships at climatic scales, soil moisture-climate interactions, drought and flood variability in a climatic context, hydroclimatology, and long-term water balance dynamics under climate variability and change.

Land-Atmosphere Coupling and Vegetation-Climate Interactions

Submissions may address evapotranspiration and surface energy balance processes, ecohydrological feedbacks, vegetation-climate interactions, land-use and land-cover change effects on climate, and biosphere-atmosphere exchange processes influencing regional and global climate dynamics.

Oceanic and Cryospheric Climate Processes

The journal welcomes work on ocean circulation, sea-air heat and mass exchange, ocean heat storage and redistribution, thermohaline circulation, sea-ice variability, glacier mass balance, and cryosphere-climate interactions influencing global and regional climate dynamics.

Climate Data Analysis and Modeling

Topics include statistical climatology, long-term time-series analysis, variability assessment, numerical climate modeling, ensemble analysis, model evaluation, and uncertainty quantification in climate inference.

Earth-System Modelling and Climate Informatics

Relevant areas encompass coupled Earth-system modelling, computational climate modelling, data-driven approaches to climate analysis, remote sensing for climate applications, and integrative modelling frameworks supporting climate process understanding.

Through this expanded scope, SCC promotes scientific research that advances understanding of feedback mechanisms, variability across scales, extreme events, and the interactions among physical, hydrological, oceanic, ecological, and computational components of the climate system. Interdisciplinary studies bridging multiple Earth-system domains are particularly encouraged.

SCC operates with full editorial independence. Manuscripts are evaluated based on scientific coherence, analytical rigor, clarity of reasoning, transparency of methods and data, and contribution to scholarly knowledge. The peer-review process is conducted by qualified subject-matter experts to ensure sound and constructive academic dialogue.