Introducing Geoscientific Statistics to the EGU

For the past decade, Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography (ASCMO) has operated as an independent Copernicus journal. With an editorial board consisting of both domain scientists and statisticians, the journal has published important research papers about novel statistical methods used in those geoscience disciplines. We are pleased to announce that the scope of the journal will now be expanded to include all areas of interest to the EGU’s mandate. Accordingly, the new name of the journal is changed to “Geoscientific Statistics” or GeoStats/GS for short. The new scoping statement is as follows:

The interdisciplinary journal Geoscientific Statistics (GeoStats) serves at the interface of statistics and all aspects of geoscience. GeoStats gives statisticians and mathematicians the opportunity to reach more scientists while publishing cutting-edge statistical methodology. It also provides researchers of the Earth system an outlet to publish details of their statistical and computational mathematical methods, and is a complement to the domain focused EGU journals

The journal subject areas are defined by the following index terms below:

• Statistics and Applied Mathematics
• Machine learning
• Atmospheric sciences
• Biogeosciences
• Climate and Earth system modelling
• Cryosphere
• Earth and space science informatics
• Hydrology
• Integrated assessment modeling
• Oceanography
• Solar–terrestrial science
• Solid Earth