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

28 Mar 2025
| BG Letters
| Highlight paper
Composite model-based estimate of the ocean carbon sink from 1959 to 2022
Jens Terhaar
Biogeosciences, 22, 1631–1649, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-1631-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-1631-2025, 2025
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27 Mar 2025
| ACP Letters
| Highlight paper
Modulation of the northern polar vortex by the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai eruption and the associated surface response
Ales Kuchar, Timofei Sukhodolov, Gabriel Chiodo, Andrin Jörimann, Jessica Kult-Herdin, Eugene Rozanov, and Harald H. Rieder
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 3623–3634, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-3623-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-3623-2025, 2025
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11 Mar 2025
| ACP Letters
| Highlight paper
Lightning declines over shipping lanes following regulation of fuel sulfur emissions
Chris J. Wright, Joel A. Thornton, Lyatt Jaeglé, Yang Cao, Yannian Zhu, Jihu Liu, Randall Jones II, Robert Holzworth, Daniel Rosenfeld, Robert Wood, Peter Blossey, and Daehyun Kim
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 2937–2946, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-2937-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-2937-2025, 2025
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28 Nov 2024
| ESD Letters
| Highlight paper
Modeling 2020 regulatory changes in international shipping emissions helps explain anomalous 2023 warming
Ilaria Quaglia and Daniele Visioni
Earth Syst. Dynam., 15, 1527–1541, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-1527-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-1527-2024, 2024
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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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