Call for papers:“Years of the Maritime Continent (YMC)”
in the Special Edition/Collection ofJournal of the Meteorological Society of Japan (JMSJ)
andScientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere (SOLA)The Years of the Maritime Continent or YMC is a multi-national and a multi-year effort, whichaims at improving our understanding and prediction skill of the weather-climate systems over theMaritime Continent (MC) as well as its global impact. Its field campaign phase has been started
since July 2017 and is scheduled to continue beyond 2020. During this campaign period, severalintensive observations have been/will be conducted and those datasets are available for not only
actual participants but also general scientific community. Its first dataset has been released fromFebruary 2019 from YMC web site at http://www.jamstec.go.jp/ymc/. By considering thisopportunity, this special edition solicits to submit a paper that can be produced using those YMC
datasets as well as numerical and theoretical studies related to this field campaign.
<< About Submission >>Manuscript submission can be made only online from;
JMSJ: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jmsj
SOLA: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sola
Please choose “YMC” during the submission process. Also, please mention that yoursubmission is for “YMC” in the cover letter.
The submitted manuscript follows ordinary review procedure. Those papers that are not intime for submission or publication in the special edition may be considered for publication inordinary issues.
Before submission, please read the “Instructions for the authors” shown at;
JMSJ: http://jmsj.metsoc.jp/instructions.html
SOLA: https://www.metsoc.jp/sola/instruction.html<< Important dates >>Deadline of submission:
JMSJ: 30 September 2020 31 December 2020 (extended)
SOLA: 30 September 2020 31 December 2020 (extended)
Publication:
JMSJ: Regular Issues in 2019 - 2021
SOLA: Special issue (Vol. 16) in 2020 and regular issue in 2021

<< Editorial Board for the Special Edition/Collection >>Guest Chief Editor: Kunio Yoneyama(JAMSTEC)
Co-chief Editors:
Manabu D. Yamanaka (RIHN)
Kazuaki Yasunaga(University of Toyama)
Regular Editors:
Tetsuya Takemi(Kyoto University)
Hiroyuki Yamada(University of the Ryukyus)
Tomoe Nasuno(JAMSTEC)
Shin-Ya Ogino(JAMSTEC)Guest Editors:
Shigeo Yoden(Kyoto University)
Ryuichi Shirooka(JAMSTEC)
Kelvin Richards(University of Hawai’i/IPRC)
Chidong Zhang(NOAA/PMEL)<< Special Remarks >>Article Processing Charge (APC) will be discounted for the papers published in this special
edition/collection. The amount of the discount will be 50,000 JPY for JMSJ Articles, 30,000 JPY forJMSJ Notes, and 20,000 JPY for SOLA Articles, respectively.
Note that for SOLA articles, this APC discount will be applied only to the papers published in Vol.
16, 2020.
<< Note on Cross-Organization Special Collection of Publications on YMC >>The accepted papers in this JMSJ/SOLA joint special edition/collection on YMC are automaticallyincorporated into “Cross-Organization Special Collection of Publications on YMC (COSC-YMC)”
since January 2020. Note that, however, this joint edition as well as APC special discountmentioned above are valid only for the papers, which are submitted to JMSJ/SOLA before theirrespective deadlines. After that, all procedures are the same as that for JMSJ/SOLA regular issues
except their appearance in the COSC-YMC site (http://www.jamstec.go.jp/ymc/ymc_sp_collection.html).
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