Thank You to Our 2018 Peer Reviewers Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

As the editors of a scienti fic journal, we are privileged to have box seats to the peer review process. We watch as reviewers shine a new light on authors' work, identifying weakness in conception orexpression, suggesting re finements, urging authors to clarify a point or better support an argument. The process is occasionally uncomfortable but it is almost always respectful and constructive and papers are uniformly better for this input. At the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES) we arefortunate to have a pool of reviewers who volunteer their time, insight, knowledge, and intelligence to improve the work of their colleagues and peers. It is no small task: In 2018, we received 715 reviews by 494 individuals. On behalf of the entire editorial board and our authors we thank you all for your sel fless contributions to strengthening our community.