FIRST ISSUE OF CLIMATIC CHANGE
Climatic Change is a new journal designed to provide a means of exchange among researchers from a variety of disciplines who are working on problems related to climatic variations. Climatic Change will give authors an opportunity to communicate the essence of their studies both to researchers in other climate-related disciplines and to interested non-disciplinarians, who might be unable to follow the details of new results published in highly technical journals. The intention of this exchange will be to stimulate interdisciplinary interest that will lead to new research possibilities and will help to define and sharpen issues that have a climatic component-issues that could also relate ultimately to public policy questions.
Researchers from any discipline -meteorology, anthropology, medicine, agricultural science, economics, ecology, etc.-are invited to submit articles about work related to any aspect of climatic change that would be of interest to specialists in at least two disciplines. Articles should be written at a level that is professional though not specialized.
The other important objectives of Climatic Change are perhaps less directly related to issues of climatic variations, but are, nonetheless, of considerable importance to the general progress of interdisciplinary research. One such objective is to define and maintain standards of excellence for reviewing interdisciplinary research.
The editorial policy for Climatic Change outlines several criteria: