Use when targeting Journal of Climate or deciding whether a climate-dynamics or climate-variability manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the large-scale-climate-science bar, model-evaluation and statistical-rigor expectations, AMS house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
SkillScore95Maintained
Automatic
◆Writing & Editing pack
Last verified 8/15/2026
What it changes
Passed 21 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 15 of 22 without it.
Without skill68%
With skill95%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
The response includes the bracketed tag '[Top risk]'.
The response includes the bracketed field '[Topic tags]'.
The response includes the bracketed field '[Climate-science contribution]'.
and 4 more in the full report
7 fixed14 passed either way0 still failing1 broke
Pass-rate lift
+27 pp
Tokens
+25%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-42%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/15/2026v121 of 22 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 7 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 7
Prompt
We evaluated a single realization of a climate model against observed sea surface temperatures without assessing internal variability or ensemble spread. Assess this manuscript's readiness for Journal of Climate using the structured evaluation fields.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
The response notes that evaluating a single model realization without addressing internal variability poses a desk-reject risk.
Missed
Passed
case-12 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/15/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md119 linessingle file
Journal of Climate (journal-of-climate)
Journal positioning
Journal of Climate is the American Meteorological Society's journal for research on the
large-scale climate of the atmosphere, ocean, land, and cryosphere. Its defining
expectation is a contribution to climate science: an advance in understanding
climate dynamics, variability, change, predictability, or diagnostics at regional-to-global
scale, supported by rigorous analysis. A local weather case study, a short-range forecast
verification, or an impacts paper that applies climate data without contributing to climate
understanding is a poor fit, however careful. This skill is a fit / venue-selection /
re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current author guidance. Before
submitting, re-check the live Journal of Climate / AMS author instructions.
When to trigger
The author names Journal of Climate and wants a fit/framing check for a climate-dynamics
or climate-variability paper.
A regional analysis or model run must be re-framed into a large-scale climate-science
contribution rather than a local case study.
The author is choosing between Journal of Climate, a dynamics-focused AMS sibling, and a
broader earth-science venue.
The author needs the journal's model-evaluation and statistical-significance expectations.
Scope & topic fit
Large-scale atmospheric and oceanic circulation and their role in climate.
Climate variability and modes (ENSO, NAO, monsoons, decadal variability) and their
mechanisms and teleconnections.
Climate change detection, attribution, and projection using observations and models.
Climate modeling and model evaluation: process representation, biases, ensembles, and
model intercomparison.
Climate diagnostics, reanalyses, and the energy/water/carbon budgets of the climate
system.
Land–atmosphere and ocean–atmosphere coupling, cryosphere–climate interactions, and
climate predictability on seasonal-to-decadal scales.
Method & evidence bar
The contribution must advance climate understanding, not merely report that a model or
Use when targeting 《金融研究》(Journal of Financial Research) — the PBC-affiliated top finance journal in China. Apply to monetary policy, banking, capital markets, corporate finance, financial risk and regulation, and fintech papers, balancing rigorous identification with concrete financial-system policy relevance. Distinguishes macro-finance from micro corporate-finance framings.