Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Climate will be granting a Travel Award to one junior scientist. Applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Climate Editorial Board.

This award provides financial support for the winners to attend an international conference in the field of climate processes in 2024, hold a presentation, or present a poster.

Candidate Requirements:
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students.
– Plans to attend an international conference in 2024 (oral presentation or poster).

Required Application Documents:
– Information about the conference the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted.
– Curriculum Vitae and list of publications.
– Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words).
– Letter of recommendation from their supervisor, research director, or department head, which also confirms the applicant’s status as a postdoctoral fellow/PhD student.

The winner (one awardee) will be awarded CHF 800 and a certificate.

Please submit your applications for the Climate 2024 Travel Award online by 31 December 2023. Prizes will be awarded at the end of March 2024 and announced on the Climate website.

Kind regards,
Climate Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Timothy G. F. Kittel, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers, who generously offer their time to review papers submitted to Climate, by presenting an award to those who have demonstrated dedication, professionalism, and timeliness.

What are the pre-requisites to be eligible for this award?
– All of the reviewers for Climate in 2023 will be automatically included.

Select Criteria:
– The number of review reports;
– The quality and timeliness of review reports.

What will the winner receive?
There will be one winner this year, and they will receive the following:
– CHF 500;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Climate in 2024 after peer review;
– A certificate.

When will the winner be announced?
– The winner will be announced in April 2024 on the journal website.

How can I make myself eligible?
– If you have not yet reviewed papers for Climate, but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer via the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Climate 2022 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in Climate from 1 January to 31 December 2022. One review and one research article will each receive an award. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the Climate Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Timothy G. F. Kittel. The winners will be announced in February 2024.

Eligibility for the award:
– Papers published in Climate from 1 January to 31 December 2022;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the Climate Award Committee according to the following criteria (data source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)):
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citation and download rates in 2023.

Prizes:
– One review award: 500 CHF and a chance to publish a free paper in Climate in 2024 after peer review.
– One research article award: 500 CHF and a chance to publish a free paper in Climate in 2024 after peer review.
– Each winner will also receive a e-certificate.

The winners will be announced on the Climate website by the end of February 2024.

Kind regards,
Climate Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Climate, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 Travel Award. The award has been granted to Dr. Elena Ceballos, a postdoctoral researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA.

As the awardee, she will receive an honorarium of CHF 800 and an electronic certificate.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winner on her accomplishments.

Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Timothy G. F. Kittel, on behalf of the Climate 2023 Travel Award Evaluation Committee

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winner of the Climate 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Climate Editorial Board and Editorial Team gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Climate. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. Eliza Kalbarczyk
Human Geography and Planning, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland
Research Interests: human‒climate relationship; renewable energy; climate adaptation; adaptation measures; air quality

The Prize:
– CHF 500;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Climate in 2023 after peer review;
– A certificate.

Kind regards,
Climate Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Climate, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Climate 2022 Travel Award.

The award has been granted to:
Dr. Pavani Misra
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I would also like to congratulate the winner on her accomplishment.

Dr. Steven McNulty
Editor-in-Chief, Climate

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Climate 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2021 in Climate were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, two winners were selected.

One Review:
Temperature and Precipitation Extremes over the Iberian Peninsula under Climate Change Scenarios: A Review 
By Authors: Susana C. Pereira, David Carvalho and Alfredo Rocha
Climate 2021, 9(9), 139; doi:10.3390/cli9090139

One Article:
Hydroclimatic Variability in the Bilate Watershed, Ethiopia 
By Authors: Yoseph Arba Orke and Ming-Hsu Li
Climate 2021, 9(6), 98; doi:10.3390/cli9060098

Each winner will receive CHF 600, a certificate and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Climate in 2023 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Climate 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Climate.

Kind regards,
Climate Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winner of the Climate 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Climate Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Climate. It is due to your efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

The winner of the Climate 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award is:

Dr. Piotr F. Borowski
Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
Research Interest: sustainable development; reduction in CO₂ emission; innovation; management of enterprises

Kind regards,
Dr. Steven McNulty
Editor-in-Chief, Climate

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, we are pleased to announce the winners of the Climate Travel Awards for 2021.

The awards have been granted to: Dr. Agostino Niyonkuru Meroni, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; and Mr. Platon Patlakas, a Ph.D. student at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, we congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Dr. Steven Mcnulty
Editor-in-Chief, Climate

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Climate, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Travel Awards sponsored by Climate.

The awards have been granted to Dr. Marco Reale, Post-Doctoral Fellow at Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy; and Dr. Christopher Aden Armatas, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Missoula, MT, USA.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their work, collectively covering a diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Dr. Gordon Huang
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

We have received many applications for 2017 Climate Travel Award for Young Scientists. Many applicants have an outstanding record of academic achievements in climate related research. The award selection committee is highly impressed with the quality of our applicants.

As Editor-in-Chief of Climate, it is my pleasure to announce that the winner of the 2017 Climate Travel Award for Young Scientists is Mr. Spyridon Paparrizos. Mr. Paparrizos is a Ph.D. candidate in the Chair of Environmental Meteorology under Prof. Dr. Andreas Matzarakis, Faculty of Environmental and Natural Recourses, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany. On behalf of Climate, Mr. Paparrizos will be supported with 800 Swiss Francs towards travel expenses to attend the 17th European Meteorological Society Annual meeting and the 12th European Conference on Applied Climatology to be held in Dublin,
Ireland during 4–8 September 2017.

Mr. Paparrizos’s main research fields are environmental science, geographic information systems (GIS), spatial and applied hydrometeorology, hydrology, erosion, forest and agricultural climatology. His current research focuses on climatological data analysis and model applications on climate change conditions using GIS and statistical analysis methods, which is highly interdisciplinary. During his PhD dissertation research, he is developing the approaches for the assessment and the impact of climate and the climate change factors on the hydrological regime in various regions in Greece. Mr. Paparrizos has published 13 journal articles since 2014, he first authored 10 of them. In addition, three of them have already been cited several times.

Please join me in congratulating Mr. Paparrizos on his 2017 Climate Travel Award.

Prof. Dr. Yang Zhang
Editor-in-Chief of Climate