''Atmosphere'' is a monthly
peer-reviewed
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open access
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scientific journal
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covering research related to the Earth's
atmosphere
An atmosphere () is a layer of gases that envelop an astronomical object, held in place by the gravity of the object. A planet retains an atmosphere when the gravity is great and the temperature of the atmosphere is low. A stellar atmosph ...
. The journal is published by
MDPI
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and was established in 2010. The founding
editor-in-chief
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was
Daniela Jacob (
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology) until 2014. She was succeeded by Robert Talbot (
University of Houston
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) and then Allison C. Aiken (
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.686.
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere
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