1 July 2016: Editors will soon give their Final Decisions. They may ask the Authors to make minor final revisions. The Jury is now constituted. It is composed of the six scientific Editors who have participated to the Challenge and of six non-scientific members.
6 June 2016: The revision submission deadline was extended until 15 June.
3 May 2016: The Author’s Replies have been received and the Editors are now working on their recommendations for the revisions of the Mansucripts.
25 April 2016: At the request of several authors we have extended the deadline for submission of the Author’s Reply to 2 May.
7 April 2016: The Open Discussion is closed and the Authors are now asked to write a point-by-point reply to the comments and questions raised in the Review Reports and to the main points raised in the Open Discussion. The Author’s Replies should be submitted using the dedicated form available on the corresponding Manuscript pages by 25 April 2016.
22 March 2016: We are delighted to announce the start of the Open Discussion! All Review Reports are now available for our members on the Manuscripts pages. This is the last opportunity to give your feed-backs (in the Comments areas) on the exciting Manuscripts participating to this Challenge.
17 March 2016: At the request of a few Referees, we have extended the deadline for submitting Review Reports to 21 March.
29 Februar 2016: We are still missing a couple of Non-scientific Referees. This should hopefully be solved in the next few days. We will then set an equal deadline for submission of Review Reports for all Manuscripts and start the common 3 week Review period. Tentatively, all deadlines for submission of Review Reports were set to 17 March today.
8 Februar 2016: Our Editors are still looking for a few Non-scientific Referees to review the Challenge Manuscripts. Please reply as soon as possible if you receive an invitation from an Editor.
7 January 2016: All participating Manuscripts now have an Editor in charge.
28 December 2015: All manuscripts but one had their submission finalized by their authors by 22 December and the challenge now goes on with the assignment of Editors. The one which could not be finalized (“Volcanic eruptions and the Northern Hemisphere polar vortex”) is now on hold and its peer-review can resume outside the context of this Challenge.
14 December 2015: Final deadline extension to 22 December.
7 December 2015: The deadline for finalization of submissions is extended to 14 December.
21 November 2015: The Preliminary Discussion is now closed. Warm thanks to all contributors for making it such an exciting discussion. The Authors now have until 7 December to freely take advantage of these feed-backs to improve their Manuscripts, finalize their submission, and post a reply in the comments area with a brief, overall summary of the modifications they made. After this date, each Manuscript will be taken in charge by a scientific Editor and will proceed through a 3-week Open Review followed by a 3-week Open Discussion (see Peer-Review Process). Authors will then be asked to make the final revision of their Manuscripts and based on them, Editors will issue their decision on acceptability for publication and Finalists. A Jury will then be constituted with an equal number of climate scientists and non climate scientists and will rank the best Manuscripts.
5 November 2015: The Challenge is started (see Announcement)! The Manuscripts are now in Preliminary Discussion until 19 Nov. We need everyone’s participation in constructive discussions in order to set a high standard both in the form (in particular the accessibility by a large public) and the content!
3 November 2015: We are delighted to announce that we have 12 Manuscripts participating to our Challenge! More coming soon…
27 October 2015: The final deadline extension for manuscript submission is set to 2 November. We have received a majority of the expected manuscripts. But to allow for a really exciting Challenge, we would like to allow (hopefully) all candidates to participate. Don’t miss this final deadline!
14 October 2015: Deadline for manuscript submission is extended to 26 October.
21 September 2015: We are delighted to announce that we have 16 confirmed participants for the Challenge. Admission of new participants is now closed. We warmly look forward to receiving the corresponding manuscripts in the coming weeks.
15 September 2015: Warm thanks to all of you who sent their notifications of participation. We now count 13 very exciting papers participating to the Challenge. This is excellent! In order to allow for candidates who may have been unable to respond during this time period, we are now extending the deadline for the notifications to the 20th of September. So, if you received an invitation and have not confirmed participation yet, please do so in the next few days. Thank you!
3 September 2015: We sent invitations to 29 candidates across the world, asking them to notify us as soon as possible but no later than 15 September 2015 of their intention to participate.
25 August 2015: We sent requests to 25 leading university institutions in the area of climate sciences in America, Europe and Asia asking recommendations for early career scientists. We warmly thank all these institutions for having replied within a few days with a large number of excellent candidates.

Participation of the following scientific papers were announced by their author(s) (21 September 2015). These papers will be re-written in non-scientific language by one of their authors for Climanosco. Note that titles will change.

• “Comparing the model-simulated global warming signal to observations using empirical estimates of unforced noise”
• “Attribution of extreme weather to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions: Sensitivity to spatial and temporal scales”
• “Empirical atmospheric thresholds for debris flows and flash floods in the southern French Alps”
• “A continental narrative: Human settlement patterns and Australian climate change over the last 35,000 years”
• “Direct radiative effects of anthropogenic aerosols on Indian summer monsoon circulation”
• “On the dynamical mechanisms explaining the western Pacific subsurface temperature buildup leading to ENSO events”
• “The impact of volcanic aerosol on the Northern Hemisphere stratospheric polar vortex: mechanisms and sensitivity to forcing structure”
• “Ocean acidification compromises recruitment success of the threatened Caribbean coral Acropora palmata”
• “Supraglacial lakes on the Greenland ice sheet advance inland under warming climate”
• “How effective is albedo modification (solar radiation management geoengineering) in preventing sea-level rise from the Greenland Ice Sheet?”
• “Temperature-moisture dependence of the deep convective transition as a constraint on entrainment in climate models”
• “The European climate under a 2 degree Celsius global warming”
• “Seasonal hydrologic responses to climate change in the Pacific Northwest”
• “Chemistry and the Linkages between Air Quality and Climate Change”
• “Global and regional surface cooling in a warming climate: a multi-model analysis”
• “A new SATIRE-S spectral solar irradiance reconstruction for solar cycles 21-23 and its implications for stratospheric ozone”

• Please make sure to read carefully the Official Rules of the Challenge (.pdf).
• Notify us of your decision to participate as soon as possible but no later than 15 September. We will not accept manuscripts from candidates who haven’t notified us by this date.
• The final submission deadline for the manuscript is set to 2 November.
• The manuscript must reflect the content of a paper you have published in a peer-reviewed journal in the broad area of climate sciences. We suggested a possible paper in our invitation email but you are free to take the one you prefer as long as you are (co-)author and that it was published in a recognized peer-reviewed journal.
• The title of the manuscript submitted to Climanosco must be different from the original one. The text must be new and original (no copy paste!). But the scientific content must be limited to the content of the original paper.
• The manuscripts must be written in non-scientific language without jargon, graphs, equations, tables, etc. One or two pictures can be included. The length will be typically 3 pages (not more than 5 pages or 2500 words).
• All necessary information for preparing your manuscript can be found here (please login first). Note in particular how to format your manuscript, how you can include references and where to submit your manuscript online (please login first).
• On the online submission form, please select “Paraphrased Article” and do not fill any Scientific Referee name (not required for articles paraphrased by original author).
• The jury will rank the manuscripts based on their final revised version after they have successfully gone through our peer-review process. You will have several opportunities to improve the manuscript based on the feed-backs from other members.
• Remember that the Jury which will rank the finalists will be composed of an equal number of climate scientists and of non climate scientists.