Our Special Issue:
MICROWAVES IN CLIMATE CHANGE
is now due out in mid-November to early December. It will be a full stand-alone special issue and we will include all our contributions in a single release rather than splitting the issue into two parts.
We currently have 12 paper contributions that are finalized and 4 more in the last stages of review. The papers span a very wide swath of topics from ozone monitoring, power beaming, and energy harvesting to bird migration and agricultural emissions monitoring. As planned, these articles come both from traditional EE communities and a range of geoscientists and physicists. It has been challenging to bring these disparate communities and cultures together but this EiC thinks you will agree that this special issue has made a good start. We hope to bring you more special features of this sort as we move into 2025 and beyond!
Background: Based on feedback from our special series article, “Making Waves: Microwaves in Climate Change,” the IEEE Journal of Microwaves is putting together a full special issue on this extremely prescient topic area. Microwave devices, instruments, systems, measurements, applications, and data analysis provide enabling technology and science retrieval in areas related to climate tracking, atmospheric chemistry and evolution, alternative energy development, efficient generation and usage of non-fossil-based fuels, waste conversion, electrification, transportation management, and every sector of the society relying on communications.
We solicited articles on the following topics as well as entertaining alternative suggestions from interested contributors:
- Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing
- Microwave Heating
- Microwave Generation of Alternative Fuels and Catalysts
- Microwave Power Beaming
- Microwave Energy Harvesting
- Microwaves in Fusion and Energy Generation
- Low-Loss Microwave Transmission
- Microwaves in Waste Management
- Microwave Assisted Chemistry
- Microwaves in Geophysics
- Microwave Data Analysis for Climate Research
- Microwave Tracking for Habitat Assessment and Animal Science
- Microwave Resource Monitoring
- Other topics related to climate science and relevant resource monitoring
Although the deadline for contributions has long passed, we will be publishing and highlighting articles on this subject throughout 2025. If you have a particular idea or topic you would like to contribute, please contact Peter Siegel, JMW Editor-in-Chief (phs@caltech.edu).
Manuscripts should be formatted and submitted using the instructions, templates, and links that can be found at: https://mtt.org/publications/journal-of-microwaves/manuscript-submission/. Contributed papers should be targeted at ten pages but review and special invited papers can be longer. All submissions will be reviewed in accordance with the normal procedures of the journal. Please tag uploaded papers as “Special Issue” through our Author Portal.
We hope you will consider contributing to this Special Issue topic of IEEE Journal of Microwaves and continue to support the journal through your regular research submissions.
