Aims & scope

EGU Letters (EL) is a virtual scientific highlight magazine for articles reporting exceptionally important results and major advances in geoscientific research that are of high general interest to the entire geoscientific community and/or to the broader public & media.

Articles included in EL are written in a concise and engaging style. They undergo full peer review and publication as a letter style article in one of the EGU interactive open-access journals. Their inclusion in EL depends upon recommendation by the chief/executive editors of the interactive journal and approval by the interdisciplinary editorial board of the virtual magazine.

Read more about EGU Letters, the characteristics, and the editorial handling.

Participating EGU journals

  • Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics (ACP)
  • Biogeosciences (BG)
  • Earth Surface Dynamics (ESurf)
  • Earth System Dynamics (ESD)
  • Geoscience Communication (GC)
  • Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics (NPG)
  • Ocean Science (OS)
  • SOIL

Recent EGU Letters

10 Oct 2024
| ACP Letters
| Highlight paper
The 2023 global warming spike was driven by the El Niño–Southern Oscillation
Shiv Priyam Raghuraman, Brian Soden, Amy Clement, Gabriel Vecchi, Sofia Menemenlis, and Wenchang Yang
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 11275–11283, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-11275-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-11275-2024, 2024
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10 Oct 2024
| GC Letters
| Highlight paper
Earth science for all? The economic barrier to European geoscience conferences
Francyne Bochi do Amarante and Mauricio Barcelos Haag
Geosci. Commun., 7, 245–250, https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-7-245-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-7-245-2024, 2024
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12 Sep 2024
| ESD Letters
Climatology and trends of concurrent temperature extremes in the global extratropics
Gabriele Messori, Antonio Segalini, and Alexandre M. Ramos
Earth Syst. Dynam., 15, 1207–1225, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-1207-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-1207-2024, 2024
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06 Aug 2024
| ESD Letters
| Highlight paper
Absence of causality between seismic activity and global warming
Mikhail Y. Verbitsky, Michael E. Mann, and Dmitry Volobuev
Earth Syst. Dynam., 15, 1015–1017, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-1015-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-1015-2024, 2024
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07 Jun 2024
| NPG Letters
Quantum data assimilation: a new approach to solving data assimilation on quantum annealers
Shunji Kotsuki, Fumitoshi Kawasaki, and Masanao Ohashi
Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 31, 237–245, https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-31-237-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-31-237-2024, 2024
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