Journal Editor's Awards

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I am honoured to accept the International Journal of Climatology Editor’s Award for 2020, and would like to thank the journal for the opportunity to publish my research on sub-daily rainfall extremes. Extreme rainfall has significant impacts on society and so the potential to develop our understanding of short duration, intense events and disseminate this work has been immensely rewarding. In particular, methods developed by our community of scientists to identify and eliminate errors in observational climate data may not necessarily generate headlines but underpins much of the work that does. It is therefore particularly pleasing that the journal recognises the role of work that improves the quality of our historical observations and so facilitate the understanding of our climate and how it is changing. As we continue to generate more and larger datasets, their quality should continue to be assessed and improved, and the journal is an important outlet for the dissemination of this research.

This work has not only contributed to an improved extreme rainfall climatology for the UK but also to a better understanding of the drivers of extremes, and is providing improved information for surface water and flood management. The knowledge and methods are now also being taken forward to provide global datasets and other associated products.

Finally, I would like to acknowledge the contributions of my co-authors and collaborators in this work, and especially the support of Professor Hayley Fowler.

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I am very honoured and grateful to receive the Meteorological Applications Editors’ Award for 2020. I joined the Journal's Editorial Board in 2019, as my first experience as Associate Editor. These two years have been very instructive for my professional growth from different perspectives. I have been learning so much not only from a scientific point of view, through the review process of many good papers in different fields, but also about the good practices for the management of a scientific journal, pushing towards increasingly higher standards of scientific quality and efficiency. I was impressed by the professionality and initiative of the journal staff: the editorial staff has always been helpful with organisation issues, while the Editorial Board meetings are a precious moment to discuss common issues on the peer-review process with colleagues, including important aspects such as equality and inclusivity. I have also to thank the Editors in Chief for their insightful suggestions when I was struggling with particularly challenging papers. Indeed, sometimes decisions are not easy, and I am therefore very pleased that my work has been appreciated. In particular, I am very happy to contribute to the improvement of the quality of Meteorological Applications in a period of important changes for the journal.

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I am Chaofan Li, an associate professor in Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. I am working on climate dynamics and monsoon prediction. It is my great honor to be presented with the Atmospheric Science Letters Editors’ Award for 2020. I have been an Associate Editor of Atmospheric Science Letters since 2018. It is really a pleasure experience being an Associate Editor, which should be fair, objective, constructive, timely and ethical. During the review process, I feel quite happy to be involved in the scientific debates on different manuscripts, and to work with many passionate editors. Thanks for this approval and encouragement on my editorial work, it gives me a surprise. I also wish our journal will become better and better.

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It is a great honour to have been awarded one of the Quarterly Journal Prize Reviewer’s Certificates for 2020. The peer review process is a critical component in the advancement of our science. Although the process comes with the burden of ensuring the quality and clarity of the science is maximized, I find performing peer reviews to be a rewarding experience as it allows me to learn about cutting-edge research as well as new and effective ways to communicate. Sometimes the time-consuming nature of performing reviews can overshadow the rewarding aspects, so I sincerely appreciate that the Quarterly Journal has such awards to recognize the effort put into the review process. I would like to thank the editors at the Quarterly Journal for this recognition and look forward to continue serving as a reviewer for such an excellent journal.

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I am honoured and grateful to receive the Quarterly Journal Prize Reviewer's Certificate for 2020. Peer review is a very important task and it's been a pleasure to contribute to the publication of high-level research works. I warmly thank the whole editorial team for giving me the opportunity to review exciting manuscripts in my expertise area. I really look forward to continue working with the Quarterly Journal in the future.

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We are very grateful to accept the Geoscience Data Journal Editors’ Award for our paper describing the dataset of pressure, temperature and rainfall observations recovered from the 1900-1910 Daily Weather Reports. This work would not have been possible without the dedication of the 2148 volunteers who spent countless hours digitizing the Daily Weather Reports for the Weather Rescue citizen science project. Data Rescue is a growing field that requires a lot of time, patience and attention to detail with input from many different people to achieve the best results.

So far, the data recovered from the 1900-1910 Daily Weather Reports have been incorporated into the Copernicus Data Rescue Service for future use in reanalysis projects and into the Met Office’s Had-UK Grid dataset to provide improved spatial coverage of rainfall observations in this time period. Some examples in our paper have demonstrated the benefits of recovering historical weather data with particular reference to some notable events in 1903! We hope that our work can motivate further data rescue efforts around the world and we are currently working on preparing more data for publication in the near future.