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Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Journal of Hydrometeorology ( JHM ). The publication of this first issue marks a coming of age of hydrology within the American Meteorological Society (AMS). Interest in the field is evidenced by rapid growth in the number of papers presented at the biannual hydrology conferences at AMS meetings (even in the off year of 1999——hydrology conferences ordinarily have been held in even-numbered years——over 200 papers were submitted in hydrology-related areas!). Notwithstanding the publication of many papers in hydrometeorology and hydroclimatology over the years in the Journal of Climate, Monthly Weather Review, and other AMS journals, until now there has been no outlet within AMS that is associated closely with the area. JHM will fill this gap. The community is indebted to Eric Wood, who, as chairman of the AMS Hydrology Committee, proposed to the AMS Council the initiation of a hydrology journal, and to Gene Rasmusson, who as President of AMS championed the idea. We are grateful for Eric and Gene’’s efforts. The statement of purpose of JHM, as approved by the AMS Council, is to publish research ““related to the modeling, observing, and forecasting of processes related to water and energy fluxes and storage terms, including interactions with the boundary layer and lower atmosphere, and including processes related to precipitation, radiation, and other meteorological inputs.”” The editors intend to interpret this charge broadly to include research within the hydrometeorology and hydroclimatology areas, or, alternatively, any work related to interactions between the land and the atmosphere. I am grateful to Editors Dara Entekhabi and Efi Georgiou, who have handled papers submitted within the prepublication year of 1999. Efi has announced her intention to step down in mid-2000, and we appreciate her help, particularly with papers that concern precipitation modeling and observation. Ken Mitchell of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction has agreed to serve as an Associate Editor and will assist in the applications area. We look forward to his involvement. I also would like to express my appreciation to my editorial assistant, Ron Loi, who has helped to set up the paper-tracking system within the Chief Editor’’s office. We are particularly excited about the range of papers included in this, the inaugural issue. The paper by Jim Smith et al., for instance, which concerns the synoptic situation and its interaction with surface conditions that lead to the 1994 Spring Creek, Texas, floods, typifies the type of hydrometeorological research we expect to publish within the journal. The article by Randy Koster and Max Suarez on precipitation predictability lies at the other end of the hydrometeorology––hydroclimatology spectrum. We find the papers in this first issue to be an excellent representation of the range of work we expect to publish in the future. I do want to invite readers who have any comments about the journal and potential contributors who might wonder about suitability of a topic and/or have any other questions, to contact me or either of the Editors. We look forward to serving you.
Journal of Hydrometeorology – American Meteorological Society
Published: Feb 1, 2000
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