Journal subject areas

The journal subject areas are defined by the following index terms. These terms represent the keywords to be chosen for the assignment of submitted manuscripts to individual topic editors.

• Cryosphere – snow, sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets, permafrost, lake and river ice
• Hydrology – hazards, river dynamics, water quality, lake monitoring, precipitation, and soil moisture
• Oceanography – SST, SSH, marine gravity and bathymetry, ocean colour, circulation, coastal processes, and biology
• Atmosphere – multidisciplinary topics including atmospheric processes (consider AMT for purely atmospheric studies)
• Natural hazards – methods and approaches for observing a wide range of natural hazards
• Land surface processes – temperature; biomass; vegetation type, trait, and health; ecology; soil properties; sedimentation and erosion; heat, moisture, and nutrient fluxes (e.g. carbon, methane, and nitrogen)
• Geodesy – solid Earth processes, gravity, topography, reference frames, and tides
• The built environment – urbanization and urban growth, humanmade infrastructures, urban heat islands, smart cities and urban planning, urban green space and biodiversity, carbon footprint of cities, population dynamics and poverty
• Instruments, methods, and missions – new instrument and mission concepts, calibration and validation, and general methodological advances including AI