About the Journal

The Electronic Journal of Severe Storms Meteorology (EJSSM) is a non-profit, open-access, international, scientific, formal, online journal for the publication of original and updated research. Through peer-reviewed notes and articles, EJSSM serves the community of meteorology that is concerned with severe storms, including both convective and nonconvective severe weather. EJSSM exists to improve understanding, prediction, preparedness and mitigation of all severe local storm hazards, through:

  • Theoretical development of conceptual and predictive models for severe storms;
  • Observational and diagnostic studies based on the variety of surface, upper air, satellite, radar, aircraft and other platforms;
  • Operational forecasting techniques and methods;
  • Historical and biographical studies;
  • Review articles; and
  • Interdisciplinary studies of the risks and impacts on humans and the environment, including storm damage analyses, social implications and economic effects.

The journal will publish research articles, research and technical notes, book reviews, letters and comments on prior papers in EJSSM. Papers on theory, prediction methods and techniques, causes, impacts, and measuring and monitoring in the following areas will be particularly welcome (the list is neither exhaustive, nor rank-ordered):

  • Any and all types of severe convective weather
  • Lightning and related storm electrification
  • Severe local storm effects produced in tropical and winter weather systems
  • Damage analysis and mitigation, human or environmental
  • Scientific documentation and analysis of extreme and/or rare events
  • Forecast development and verification concepts
  • Climatology of and/or influencing severe storm events
  • Severe winter storms, including heavy snow, ice, and wind
  • Heavy rainfall events, convective and nonconvective
  • Pyroconvective storms and fire storms
  • Tropical cyclones, especially as they relate to severe impacts and heavy rainfall

EJSSM also publishes occasional special editions that concentrate on specific topics or events regarding severe storms.