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

08 Oct 2025
| BG Letters
| Highlight paper
Extensive fire-driven degradation in 2024 marks worst Amazon forest disturbance in over 2 decades
Clément Bourgoin, René Beuchle, Alfredo Branco, João Carreiras, Guido Ceccherini, Duarte Oom, Jesus San-Miguel-Ayanz, and Fernando Sedano
Biogeosciences, 22, 5247–5256, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5247-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5247-2025, 2025
Short summary Co-editor-in-chief
08 Oct 2025
| OS Letters
Spatiotemporal properties of intrinsic sea level variability along the southeastern United States coastline
Carmine Donatelli, Christopher M. Little, Rui M. Ponte, and Stephen G. Yeager
Ocean Sci., 21, 2367–2377, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-2367-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-2367-2025, 2025
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01 Oct 2025
| GC Letters
| Highlight paper
Visualising historical changes in air pollution with the Air Quality Stripes
Kirsty J. Pringle, Richard Rigby, Steven T. Turnock, Carly L. Reddington, Meruyert Shayakhmetova, Malcolm Illingworth, Denis Barclay, Neil Chue Hong, Ed Hawkins, Douglas S. Hamilton, Ethan Brain, and James B. McQuaid
Geosci. Commun., 8, 229–236, https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-8-229-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-8-229-2025, 2025
Short summary Executive editor
04 Sep 2025
| OS Letters
| Highlight paper
Synoptic observation of a full mesoscale eddy lifetime and its secondary instabilities in the Gulf of Mexico
Charly de Marez
Ocean Sci., 21, 1933–1942, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1933-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1933-2025, 2025
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14 Jul 2025
| ACP Letters
| Highlight paper
Observational constraints suggest a smaller effective radiative forcing from aerosol–cloud interactions
Chanyoung Park, Brian J. Soden, Ryan J. Kramer, Tristan S. L'Ecuyer, and Haozhe He
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 7299–7313, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-7299-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-7299-2025, 2025
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