Call for papers: The U.S. climate collection: Informing assessment of risks and solutions
The American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the American Meteorological Society (AMS), are collaborating to catalyze assessment science that advances U.S.-focused climate change research. The "U.S. Climate Collection" will synthesize critical elements of recent and emerging climate change knowledge to support future national and sub-national assessments of climate risks and solutions.
Scientific assessments support decision-making by synthesizing climate knowledge - including scientific research, practitioner experience and local or Indigenous knowledge - to evaluate the current state of the science and its uncertainty. Climate assessments like the U.S. National Climate Assessment and state-level and other sub-national climate assessments inform public and private decisions across the United States and its territories.
As the scope of climate literature has grown, independent, peer-reviewed syntheses addressing specific areas of research have become increasingly important inputs into assessments.
The joint AGU-AMS "US Climate Collection: Informing Assessment of Risks and Solutions" seeks papers that synthesize critical elements of recent and emerging knowledge to support future national and sub-national assessments of climate risks and solutions within the United States. Contributions will be welcome across the AGU and AMS family of journals. In addition to synthesis papers relevant to national and regional climate assessment (including but not limited to the topics identified above), contributions that can inform evidence-based design of future local to multi-sectoral assessments of climate change risks and solutions within the United States are also welcome.
Topics of papers
Topics for this call for papers include but are not restricted to:
- Effects of climate change on physical, natural, and social systems in the United States
- The state of knowledge and progress on adaptation, mitigation, resilience, and disaster risk management, including decision-making processes and governance
- Risks and solutions
- Infrastructure and transportation
- Urban, suburban, and rural communities
- Indigenous lands, people, and treaty rights
- US international interests and national security
- Human health and air quality
- Economic systems
- Food, energy, and water systems
- Nature, forests, and ecosystems
- Coasts, oceans, and marine resources
- Regional assessments that synthesize one or more relevant key topics
- Emerging areas of concern or interest related to climate changes, impacts, vulnerabilities, risks, and responses
- Decision support and assessment tools such as indicators, novel datasets, and cross-cutting analyses, mapping, projections, and forecasts
Special collection organizers
Costa Samaras, Carnegie Mellon University United States
Henry Huntington, Huntington Consulting United States
Melissa Kenney, University of Minnesota United States
Robert Kopp, Rutgers University United States
Submission guidelines
All AGU and AMS journals are accepting submissions in this special collection.
Authors are encouraged to submit proposals for synthesis papers and other assessment-related research to the U.S. Climate Collection. Interest authors should complete this form.