Weather, Climate, and Society

CURRENT ISSUE

Volume 17 (2025): Issue 1 (Jan 2025)

About the Journal

Weather, Climate, and Society (WCAS) publishes research and reviews that address economics, policy analysis, political science, history, communication, and institutional, social, health, and behavioral scholarship and research relating to weather and climate, including both climate variability and longer-term climate change. Contributions must include evidence-based analysis and substantive discussion of the interactions of weather and climate with society, taking an integrated approach, drawing on both the social and physical sciences.

Since many authors of WCAS papers are from social science disciplines, for which funding is generally more limited than in the physical sciences, the AMS Council has eliminated page charges for this journal.

ISSN: 1948-8327; elSSN: 1948-8335

Editor in Chief

Henry Huntington, Huntington Consulting

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Impact Factor

1.9 

2023 Journal Impact Factors in the Meteorology and Atmospheric Science and Environmental Studies categories

Most cited articles since 1990:

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Moving toward the Deliberate Coproduction of Climate Science Knowledge

Alison M. Meadow
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Daniel B. Ferguson
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Zack Guido
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Alexandra Horangic
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Gigi Owen
, and
Tamara Wall
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Social Vulnerability to Climate-Sensitive Hazards in the Southern United States

Christopher T. Emrich
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Susan L. Cutter
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Blowin’ in the Wind: Short-Term Weather and Belief in Anthropogenic Climate Change

Lawrence C. Hamilton
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Mary D. Stampone
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Global Warming Effects on U.S. Hurricane Damage

Kerry Emanuel
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Developing Evaluation Indicators to Improve the Process of Coproducing Usable Climate Science

Tamara U. Wall
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Alison M. Meadow
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Alexandra Horganic
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Weather, Climate, and Worldviews: The Sources and Consequences of Public Perceptions of Changes in Local Weather Patterns

Kevin Goebbert
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Hank C. Jenkins-Smith
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Kim Klockow
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Matthew C. Nowlin
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Carol L. Silva
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Moving Climate Information off the Shelf: Boundary Chains and the Role of RISAs as Adaptive Organizations

Maria Carmen Lemos
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Christine J. Kirchhoff
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Scott E. Kalafatis
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Donald Scavia
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Richard B. Rood

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Assessment of NWS County Warning Area Tornado Risk, Exposure, and Vulnerability

Stephen M. Strader
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Alex M. Haberlie
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Alexandra G. Loitz
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The Impact of Temperature on Major League Baseball

Brandon Lee D. Koch
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Anna K. Panorska
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The Perception of Daily Temperatures as Evidence of Global Warming

Stephen B. Broomell
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Jon-Francis Winkles
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Patrick Bodilly Kane
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