Editorial

Abstract

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere (SOLA) has been a fully Open Access journal under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/ license/by/4.0) since 2018. Since the establishment in 2005, SOLA has been pursuing rapid review cycle and rapid publication to disseminate scientific findings and knowledge in meteorology, atmospheric sciences, and the related fields. This goal is very challenging, but because of this goal, the number of papers submitted from the international community is increasing year by year. Last year, the Meteorological Society of Japan (MSJ) launched a new award, the Matsuno Award (MSJ 2017), to recognize the excellence in the presentation by graduate students at the MSJ meetings. SOLA will waive the Article Processing Charge for the papers authored by the recipients of the Matsuno Award. The papers authored by the recipients of the first Matsuno Award were published in SOLA (Yoshida and Takemi 2018; Yamamoto and Ishikawa 2018). In addition, SOLA is continuing to give The SOLA Award to outstanding paper(s) published each year. The Award winning paper in 2018 is Miura (2017) and Goto et al. (2017). The SOLA Award in 2018 will be announced shortly. In June 2018, the new Editorial Committee of SOLA has started and welcomed new members not only from Japan but also from the international community. SOLA welcomes submission from the international community in meteorology, atmospheric sciences, and the related fields.