Climatic Change is dedicated to the totality of the problem of climatic variability and change ? its descriptions causes implications and interactions among these. The purpose of the journal is to provide a means of exchange between those working on problems related to climatic variations but in different disciplines. Interdisciplinary researchers or those in any discipline be it meteorology anthropology agricultural science astronomy biology chemistry physics geography policy analysis economics engineering geology ecology or history of climate are invited to submit articles provided the articles are of interdisciplinary interest. This means that authors have an opportunity to communicate the essence of their studies to people in other climate related dicisplines and to interested non-disciplinarians as well as to report on research in which the originality is in the combinations of (not necessarily original) work from several disciplines. The journal also includes vigorous editorial and book review sections.

氣候變化是關(guān)于氣候變化問題的整體，它的描述引起了這些問題之間的含義和相互作用。該期刊的目的是為從事與氣候變化有關(guān)但屬于不同學(xué)科的問題的研究人員提供一種交流手段。跨學(xué)科研究人員或任何學(xué)科的研究人員，無論是氣象、人類學(xué)、農(nóng)業(yè)科學(xué)、天文學(xué)、生物學(xué)、化學(xué)、物理、地理、政策分析、經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)、工程地質(zhì)學(xué)、生態(tài)學(xué)或氣候史，只要論文具有跨學(xué)科的興趣，均可投稿。這意味著作者有機(jī)會將他們研究的本質(zhì)傳達(dá)給其他氣候相關(guān)領(lǐng)域的人，以及感興趣的非專業(yè)人士，同時也有機(jī)會報告那些原創(chuàng)性來自多個學(xué)科(不一定是原創(chuàng)性的)研究成果的組合。該雜志還包括活躍的編輯和書評部分。