GoAmazon2014/15 Call for Papers for Special Issue

 
Published: 23 July 2015

The GoAmazon2014/15 campaign will be the focus of a combined special issue, scheduled in four journals. Campaign scientists can submit their contributions using the online registration form on the journal of their choice’s website until May 31, 2018.

While deployed for GoAmazon2014/15 outside of Manaus, Brazil, the first ARM Mobile Facility is lit up by a sunset.
While deployed for GoAmazon2014/15 outside of Manaus, Brazil, the first ARM Mobile Facility is lit up by a sunset.

Special issues of journals contain collections of papers on a specific topic or theme. The GoAmazon2014/15 special issue is made up of multiple journals, with editors chosen from among the participating journals. Each manuscript will be peer-reviewed and published according their respective journal’s procedure. After publishing, all papers will be listed on a joint web page specifically for the special issue. This electronic linking creates a new way of publishing special issues for measurement campaigns, like GoAmazon2014/15.

The participating journals are Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Geoscientific Model Development, and Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods, and Data Systems. The guest editors for the special issue are James Allan, Tuukka Petäjä, Thomas Karl, Maria Assuncao Silva Dias, and Tim Garrett.

The Amazon Basin, home to the largest rainforest in the world, remains largely unexplored, making it hard for scientists to understand the processes that take place inside it. It’s especially important to climate scientists because the hydrologic cycle of the basin is one of the main heat engines in the Southern Hemisphere. Also, because of the naturally low levels of aerosols over the rainforest, human pollution could have oversized impacts on the system.

The GoAmazon2014/15 campaign—a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy and Brazilian and German organizations—has been removing some of the mystery surrounding the basin. From January 2014 to December 2015, researchers used the first ARM Mobile Facility to obtain measurements outside of Manaus, Brazil, a major city in the region. They also made use of ARM’s Mobile Aerosol Observing System and the G-1 research aircraft for two intensive operational periods. For a holistic view of the campaign, see the Department of Energy’s GoAmazon2014/15 website.