A celebration of Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Do you perform measurements of gases, aerosols, clouds, or other components/properties of the atmosphere? Have you recently validated a method, developed a new technique or algorithm to analyse atmospheric measurements? Have you built or improved an instrument for atmospheric measurements? If your answer to any of these questions is “yes”, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT) is the journal for you.

Since the journal’s inception in 2008, numerous advances have been published in AMT. To name a few examples, the presentation of the widely used MODIS Collection 6 aerosol products (Levy et al., 2013) remains one of the top downloaded papers in AMT (https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/6/2989/2013/). The description of a method for characterization of extreme fire plumes that aids fire research, while also supporting decision making (Ribau et al., 2025), is a recent highlight article that received numerous positive comments from the community (https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/18/7805/2025/amt-18-7805-2025-discussion.html). And an innovative way of utilizing data from tall, ecosystem study-oriented atmospheric towers to monitor urban greenhouse gas emissions (Coimbra et al., 2024) is described in a highlight article that received particularly detailed and helpful reviews (https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/17/6625/2024/amt-17-6625-2024-discussion.html). The article received one of the two 2024 AMT Best Article Awards; the other award went to the description of the calibration of long-term in situ H2 observations by Pétron and colleagues (https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/17/4803/2024/).

AMT also features review articles on topics such as uncertainty estimation of observations of atmospheric composition (von Clarmann, 2020) (https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/13/4393/2020/). Review articles from EGU journals are conveniently collected in the Encyclopedia of Geosciences (https://encyclopedia-of-geosciences.net/index.html).

In this PICO contribution, we will showcase some of the features and highlights of AMT and introduce the sizeable editorial board: for it is the dedication of our active community of (executive) editors, reviewers, authors and comment-posters, that enables the publication of about 400 high-quality papers on Atmospheric Measurement Techniques every year.