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Knowledge Transfer TelecomCMMAP book and journal projects

5/23/2007

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Agenda

1. Book • Chapter authors• Updates• Publishers• Book proposal

2. Journal• Movement toward Open Access• Review of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (MAS)

Journals and Publishers• Publishing Options

• In house• Society (non-profit)• Commercial (for-profit)

• Fact Sheet & Journal Proposal

3. Action Items

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Chapter Authors (as of 27 Apr 07)

A History of Atmospheric General Circulation ModelingChapter 1. IntroductionThis chapter to be written by the WG for the book.

Chapter 2. From Richardson to Early Numerical Weather PredictionPeter Lynch-invited 13 Mar 07; agreed 14 Mar 07.

Chapter 3. From Early Numerical Weather Prediction to General Circulation Models for ClimateNorm Phillips-invited 13 Mar 07; declined 15 Mar 07. Dave Burridge-invited 9 Apr 07; decline 10 Apr 07.

Chapter 4. The Evolution of Research Goals for General Circulation ModelsSuki Manabe-contacted 20 Dec 06, agreed 10 Jan 07, declined 12 Jan 07 Warren Washington-agreed 25 Jan 07; Akira Kasahara will co-author

Chapter 5. The Evolution of Complexity in General Circulation ModelsAkio Arakawa-declined, 24 Jan 07. Dave Randall agrees, 5 Feb 07.

Chapter 6. Numerical Weather Prediction in the Era of Climate General Circulation ModelsEugenia Kalnay-invited 13 Mar 07.

Chapter 7. The Role of Observations in Developing and Evaluating General Circulation ModelsV. Ramanathan, contacted on 12 Feb 07; agreed 13 Feb 07.

Chapter 8. The Societal Context of General Circulation Model Research and DevelopmentJerry Mahlman, request sent on 24 Jan 07; declined 20 Feb 07. Bert Bolin request sent on 27 Apr 07.

Chapter 9. Coupling Atmospheric General Circulation to OceansKirk Bryan has agreed to author Ch. 9 as of 22 March 07.

Chapter 10. Coupling Atmospheric General Circulation to Land, Chemistry, and BiologyBob Dickinson invited 9 Apr 07; agreed 11 Apr 07.

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UpdatesLeo Donner 4/27/07

Ch 8. Will approach Steve Schneider if Bert Bolin declines

Ch 3. Dave Burridge suggested as alternate possibilities Dave Williamson, Adrian Simmons, Martin Miller, and Mike Cullen. Dave Williamson is not interested.

Ch 6. Eugenia Kalnay (likely) declined. Since Chapter 6 deals with NWP in the era of climate models, I'm leaning in the direction of the UK Met Office, since they actually have a unified model. Instead of Eugenia, I'm thinking about Cath Senior.

Richard Somerville 4/29/07

CH 3 & 6 …the possible author list could include Lennart Bengtsson, Ulrich Cubasch, Tony del Genio, Tony Hollingsworth, Masao Kanamitsu, Jeff Kiehl, John Mitchell, Kiku Miyakoda, Tim Palmer, Erich Roeckner, and Jagadish Shukla

Suggestion: Seek prospective author’s direction on Chapters 3 and 6.

…replace 3 and 6 with one chapter on the history of short-range, high-resolution NWP, including regional models, and another on the history of medium-range NWP with emphasis on modern groups like ECMWF and the UKMO but also their predecessors, such as Miyakoda's earlier work at GFDL.

…alternatively, treat a topic like cloud and radiation parameterizations and trace its evolution in both NWP and GCM contexts, from total neglect in the early days, on through extremely simple schemes, to the present-day physically comprehensive ones.

Leo Donner 5/22/07Lennart Bengtsson has agreed to author Chapter 3.

Suggestion: dispense with Chapter 6, "Numerical Weather Prediction in the Era of Climate General Circulation Models." We can always resurrect it later, should a suitable author emerge. Chapter 8 Steve Schneider, … James Fleming. As the current holder of the Revelle fellowship from AAAS and his stature as a meteorological historian, he would probably be excellent.

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Prospective Book Publishers

• Publishers• Cambridge (~$120 – $130, marketed Peter Lynch's book at $70)

• Ocean Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Modeling, Boris A. Kragan, 391pp, 1995 £75, paperback 2006 £32)

• Elsevier, Atmospheric Sciences (~$195-$120)• Oxford (~$200-$60 hardback)

• Atmospheric Convection, Kerry Emanuel, 1994, 592pp hardback, $134• Historical perspectives on Climate Change, JR Fleming, 1998, 208pp, $59

• Low cost options• AMS meteorological monographs ($110-$50 hard cover, list price)• AGU geophysical monograph series (~$90-$65 hard cover)• Princeton University Press (~$70)

• Fundamentals of Ocean Climate Models, S. Griffies, 2004, 496pp $67• Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry, D. Jacob, 1999, 264pp, $65• Is Temperature Rising?, SG Philander, 1998, 240pp, $75

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Book Proposal

Marketability• Drop “history” from the title (Susan Francis, Cambridge University Press)• Consider topical chapters to attract a broader readership?

Other• Status of Interviews

Book proposal• Motivations for writing• Chapters

• Short abstracts• Readership

• Other academic researchers• Professionals• Grad students/under grads

• Comparable books• Supplemental material

• CD, Web sites• Editor & chapter author information

• Editors CV’s• Authors affiliations & interests

• Time frame

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Agenda

1. Book • Chapter authors• Updates• Publishers• Book proposal

2. Journal• Movement toward Open Access• Review of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (MAS)

Journals and Publishers• Publishing Options

• In house• Society (non-profit)• Commercial (for-profit)

• Fact Sheet & Journal Proposal

3. Action Items

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Movement toward Open Access

• The EC has published its Communication on Scientific Information in the Digital Age: Access, Dissemination and Preservation...highlights include the commitment to include publishing costs in research projects and €50 million for work on infrastructures, in particular digital repositories, in 2007-2008.

• Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) has pledged to resurrect the Federal Research Public Access Act (S.2695), which would require federally funded research to become publicly available online within six months of being published.

• US publishers and scientific societies are beginning to adopt a Hybrid Open Access model.

– Typically author submission charges are more expensive than for Open Access Journals– Libraries still pay for subscriptions– Licensing policies are inconsistent

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MAS Journals – Impact Factors

Rank 2005 Journal# of Articles

Impact Factor

1 ATMOS CHEM PHYS 238 3.502 CLIM DYNAM 108 3.473 J CLIMATE 338 3.404 GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEM CY 117 3.375 B AM METEOROL SOC 83 3.066 ATMOS ENVIRON 685 2.727 TELLUS B 40 2.598 OCEAN MODEL 52 2.569 CLIMATIC CHANGE 105 2.4810 J AEROSOL SCI 90 2.4811 AGR FOREST METEOROL 109 2.4612 J HYDROMETEOROL 70 2.3813 J ATMOS SCI 277 2.0814 Q J ROY METEOR SOC 143 2.0315 MON WEATHER REV 216 2.00

Rank 20041 J CLIMATE 343 3.502 CLIM DYNAM 107 3.503 J ATMOS SCI 209 2.954 GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEM CY 123 2.865 AGR FOREST METEOROL 116 2.816 ATMOS CHEM PHYS 170 2.677 B AM METEOROL SOC 86 2.618 ATMOS ENVIRON 640 2.569 J ATMOS CHEM 73 2.0510 CLIMATIC CHANGE 85 2.0411 BOUND-LAY METEOROL 85 1.9912 J HYDROMETEOROL 66 1.9013 J AEROSOL SCI 97 1.8614 MON WEATHER REV 193 1.8615 TELLUS B 41 1.85

Top 15 Journals sorted by Impact Factor for 2005 (top) and 2004 (bottom)

Are Open Access Journals gaining readership/credibility?

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MAS Journals - ACP Example

1 Revenue based on (low end) submission page charge of E23, 1.3E/USD

2 2007 figures projected through March to end of the year

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•Discussion section hosts simultaneous public and professional peer review•User friendly online format

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Academic Journal Market

1 PUBLISHING COOPERATIVES: AN ALTERNATIVE FOR SOCIETY PUBLISHERS, A SPARC Discussion Paper, Raym Crow, Senior Consultant, SPARC Consulting Group, February 2006

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MAS Journals – Average Impact Factor and Cost by Publisher

Rank 2000-2004

Titles Publisher

Impact Factor

Price per article

Relative Cost Index

Composite Price Index

4 8 AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC 2.16 1.96 0.29 1.54

7 1 ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOC 2.03 3.40 0.49 2.53

8 2 AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION 2.16 4.63 0.63 3.57

9 2 EUROPEAN GEOPHYSICAL SOC 2.47 3.67 0.80 3.93

10 2 BLACKWELL MUNKSGAARD 2.27 6.31 0.91 4.45

13 1 INTER-RESEARCH 1.36 11.46 1.28 7.63

15 1 ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2.56 10.78 2.12 10.04

16 1 CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS 0.38 12.21 2.85 14.72

17 1 JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD 1.62 20.45 2.99 15.43

18 5 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 1.64 16.61 2.95 16.04

19 4 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL 1.64 21.99 3.14 17.81

20 3 SPRINGER-VERLAG 1.74 21.49 3.60 18.43

21 1 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC 1.48 19.68 4.30 22.18

24 2 SPRINGER-VERLAG WIEN 1.23 33.74 6.30 32.45

25 2 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 1.69 42.79 7.78 36.68

1 Cost data from Ulrich's International Periodical Directory and the ISI Journal Citation Reports database. Terms defined at http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~mcafee/Journal/explanation.html2 Impact Factors form ISI

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Rank 2000-2004 Title Publisher

Impact Factor 2005

Price per article

Relative Cost Index

Composite Price Index

Value Category

1 BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC 3.06 0 0 0 good

2 ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS EUROPEAN GEOPHYSICAL SOC 3.50 0 0 0 good4 JOURNAL OF CLIMATE AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC 3.40 1.45 0.16 0.86 good7 JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC 2.08 2.05 0.27 1.4 good8 JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC

TECHNOLOGYAMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC 1.53 1.85 0.28 1.54 good

9 JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC 2.38 2.26 0.31 1.62 good10 MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC 2.00 2.25 0.31 1.63 good13 JOURNAL OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC 1.70 3.04 0.46 2.4 good14 QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL

METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETYROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOC 2.03 3.40 0.49 2.53 good

15 WEATHER AND FORECASTING AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC 1.14 2.80 0.55 2.84 good16 GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION 3.37 5.03 0.47 2.84 good17 TELLUS SERIES B-CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL

METEOROLOGYBLACKWELL MUNKSGAARD 2.59 7.03 0.75 3.86 good

20 TELLUS SERIES A-DYNAMIC METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

BLACKWELL MUNKSGAARD 1.95 5.58 1.06 5.03 good

21 ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2.72 8.97 1.05 6.22 good23 CLIMATE RESEARCH INTER-RESEARCH 1.36 11.46 1.28 7.63 medium24 ANNALES GEOPHYSICAE EUROPEAN GEOPHYSICAL SOC 1.45 7.34 1.59 7.85 medium27 OCEAN MODELLING ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2.56 10.78 2.12 10.04 medium28 METEOROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS 0.38 12.21 2.85 14.72 bad29 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD 1.62 20.45 2.99 15.43 bad30 CLIMATIC CHANGE KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL 2.48 23.03 2.6 15.47 bad31 AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2.46 24.58 3.46 16.22 bad32 JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL 1.41 18.77 2.77 16.44 bad34 CLIMATE DYNAMICS SPRINGER-VERLAG 3.47 29.72 3.47 17.91 bad37 JOURNAL OF AEROSOL SCIENCE PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2.48 26.62 3.25 19.01 bad39 BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL 1.41 25.93 4.01 20.69 bad40 ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC 1.48 19.68 4.3 22.18 bad44 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY SPRINGER-VERLAG WIEN 1.30 32.5 5.91 30.44 bad45 METEOROLOGY AND ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS SPRINGER-VERLAG WIEN 1.16 34.98 6.68 34.46 bad46 DYNAMICS OF ATMOSPHERES AND OCEANS ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 0.92 61 12.09 57.13 bad

1 Cost data from Ulrich's International Periodical Directory and the ISI Journal Citation Reports database. Terms defined at http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~mcafee/Journal/explanation.html2 Impact Factors form ISI

MAS Journals –Impact Factor and Cost by Publisher

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Journal Publishing Options

In HousePros: full control, potentially low costCons: slow startup, lacks instant credibility

Society (non-profit)Pros: fast startup, midrange cost, initial credibilityCons: loss of some control

Commercial Publisher (for-profit)Pros: initial credibilityCons: expensive submission charges, variable licensing policies

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OA and Hybrid Journal Submission Fees

Publisher (# of Titles) Publishing Policy

Charges Notes

Copernicus (16) Open Access €23-33 LaTeX-Word to €68 for Hard copy per article 15-20pp* €23- €33*1.3 = $450-$850

Publisher for EGU, full feature online format, offers interactive discussion format

Hindawi (36) OA €50/page mainly materials sciences, mathematics and physics

PLoS (7) OA $1250 per article not interested

BioMed Central (176) OA £750, €1110, $1465 per article mainly biosciences, e.g. Carbon Balance and Management

Science Publications (9) OA Only PDF online format

Springer (917) hybrid; (1) OA Springer Open Choice $3000 publishers of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Elsevier (14) Hybrid $3000 (author sponsor available after article is accepted)

Blackwell (100) hybrid; (3) OA £1250 ($2500) Additional color charges

AGU offering hybrid option as of 3/07

Author Choice, $75 ($142 for GRL) per publication unit

ACS (33) hybrid AuthorChoice $3000 base fee, $2000 Affiliated Subscriber, $1500 ACS member, $1000 ACS member, affiliated

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Journal Fact Sheet and Proposal

• Journal Fact Sheet outlines scope and journal format. Solicit interest from:– EGU/Copernicus

– AGU

– Blackwell

• Proposal– Keep submission charges within proposed range of $500 - $1000 per article

• May require affiliating with non-profit publisher. • Hybrid model adopted by for-profit publishers ~$3000/article.

– In 5-yrs become independent from CMMAP.

– Become a top MAS journal (impact factor ~ 3) after 5-yrs.

– Identify readership/authors

– Provide information about competing journals and unique aspects of JAMES.

– Define scope of articles intended for JAMES section directed toward science educators and the general public.

– Provide information about the initial editorial staff.

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Action Items

• Remaining book chapter authors (Donner, Somerville)• Draft book proposal (Ames/Donner)• Send out Journal Fact Sheet (Ames)• Draft journal proposal (Ames/Schubert)

• Next telecom - Wednesday, 6-20-07, 9AM MDT– Follow up on Book and Journal action items– KT to NWP and Climate Centers

• KT area of CMMAP website