Editor

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Editors Viewpoint

• Jeff Craven
• Science and Operations Officer
• NWS Sullivan/Milwaukee WI
• WCM/SOO Conference Feb 14 2007

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Ideally, an Editor Wants

• Proper format of manuscript
• Topic Relevant to journal submitted to
• Paper has been reviewed by peers at local office
  and CRH. Thus, grammar, format, and content are
  appropriate and have been pre-screened and
  mentored

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Editor Wish List

• Editors and reviewers should focus on scientific
  content and merit, figures
• Other problems on format and grammar should be
  fleshed out beforehand in local review (S00) and
  CRH Met Sciences Division
• This is being done effectively in some offices,
  as some high quality submissions are just about
  ready to go as submitted. Great!

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Editor Wish List

• Pre-screening and mentoring (such that could be
  accomplished with PAT-Publications Assistance
  Team) also avoids brutal/brunt reviews that could
  severely discourage a fledgling author
• It also helps mold the manuscript for the
  appropriate medium (Conference presentation,
  Preprint, Tech Attachment, Tech Memo, Electronic
  Journal, Fully Refereed Journal)

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Questions ? .Answers ??
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This sounds great, but

• Plan for Web-based compendium soon,
• check weather.gov/fgf/?nlsr2pub
• - with these Powerpoints
• - with related checklists
• - with related links
• Please Provide the Content !

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From the LSR to the PUB!!