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Executive editors: Camille Li, Stephan Pfahl & Heini Wernli
eISSN: WCD 2698-4016, WCDD 2698-4024
Weather and Climate Dynamics (WCD) is a not-for-profit international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and public discussion of high-quality research on dynamical processes in the atmosphere. It represents a timely effort to establish a seamless perspective on atmospheric flows, on scales from weather to climate (minutes to decades). The scope of the journal includes the following: the dynamics of extreme weather events (case studies and climatological analyses); weather system dynamics in tropical, midlatitude and polar regions; interactions of atmospheric flows with cloud physics and/or radiation; links between the atmospheric water cycle and weather systems; tropical-extratropical and midlatitude-polar interactions; atmospheric teleconnections and stratosphere-troposphere coupling; boundary-layer dynamics and coupling to land, ocean and ice; atmospheric variability and predictability on time scales from minutes to decades; storm track and Hadley cell dynamics; role of atmospheric dynamics in paleoclimate and climate change projections; and other aspects of weather and climate dynamics. Theoretical studies, idealized numerical studies, full-physics numerical studies, and diagnostic studies using (re)analysis and/or observational data are welcome.

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Recent papers

29 Sep 2025
How relevant are frequency changes of weather regimes for understanding climate change signals in surface precipitation in the North Atlantic–European sector? A conceptual analysis with CESM1 large ensemble simulations
Luise J. Fischer, David N. Bresch, Dominik Büeler, Christian M. Grams, Robin Noyelle, Matthias Röthlisberger, and Heini Wernli
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 1027–1043, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1027-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1027-2025, 2025
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26 Sep 2025
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Learning predictable and informative dynamical drivers of extreme precipitation using variational autoencoders
Fiona R. Spuler, Marlene Kretschmer, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda, Yevgeniya Kovalchuk, and Theodore G. Shepherd
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 995–1014, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-995-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-995-2025, 2025
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26 Sep 2025
The impact of tropospheric blocking on the duration of the sudden stratospheric warmings in boreal winter 2023/24
Ekaterina Vorobeva and Yvan Orsolini
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 1015–1026, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1015-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1015-2025, 2025
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25 Sep 2025
Probabilistic seasonal outlook for the rainy season over India by monitoring the onset dates using GPM IMERG satellite-based precipitation
Chempampadam Balasubramannian Jayasankar and Vasubandhu Misra
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 981–993, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-981-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-981-2025, 2025
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23 Sep 2025
A poleward storm track shift reduces mid-latitude heatwave frequency: insights from an idealized atmospheric model
Wolfgang Wicker, Emmanuele Russo, and Daniela I. V. Domeisen
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 965–979, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-965-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-965-2025, 2025
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23 Sep 2025
Revisiting the Historical Drying of the Mediterranean in the LESFMIP Simulations
David Avisar and Chaim I. Garfinkel
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4287,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4287, 2025
Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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19 Sep 2025
Observation based precipitation life cycle analysis of heavy rainfall events in the southeastern Alpine forelands
Stephanie J. Haas, Andreas Kvas, and Jürgen Fuchsberger
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 949–963, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-949-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-949-2025, 2025
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18 Sep 2025
Resolution Dependence and Biases in Cold and Warm Frontal Extreme Precipitation over Europe in CMIP6 and EURO-CORDEX Models
Armin Schaffer, Tobias Lichtenegger, Albert Ossó, and Douglas Maraun
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4235,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4235, 2025
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17 Sep 2025
A new index used to characterise the extent of Antarctic marine coastal winds in climate projections
Archie Cable, Thomas Caton Harrison, Elizabeth Kent, Richard Cornes, and Thomas Bracegirdle
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4321,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4321, 2025
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17 Sep 2025
The tropospheric response to zonally asymmetric momentum torques: implications for the downward response to wave reflection and SSW events
Wuhan Ning, Chaim I. Garfinkel, Judah Cohen, Ian P. White, and Jian Rao
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4334,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4334, 2025
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Highlight articles

26 Sep 2025
Learning predictable and informative dynamical drivers of extreme precipitation using variational autoencoders
Fiona R. Spuler, Marlene Kretschmer, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda, Yevgeniya Kovalchuk, and Theodore G. Shepherd
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 995–1014, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-995-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-995-2025, 2025
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05 Sep 2025
CYCLOPs: a Unified Framework for Surface Flux-Driven Cyclones Outside the Tropics
Kerry Emanuel, Tommaso Alberti, Stella Bourdin, Suzana J. Camargo, Davide Faranda, Emmanouil Flaounas, Juan Jesus Gonzalez-Aleman, Chia-Ying Lee, Mario Marcello Miglietta, Claudia Pasquero, Alice Portal, Hamish Ramsay, Marco Reale, and Romualdo Romero
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 901–926, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-901-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-901-2025, 2025
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24 Feb 2025
Sensitivity of tropical orographic precipitation to wind speed with implications for future projections
Quentin Nicolas and William R. Boos
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 231–244, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-231-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-231-2025, 2025
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18 Feb 2025
Synoptic perspective on the conversion and maintenance of local available potential energy in extratropical cyclones
Marc Federer, Lukas Papritz, Michael Sprenger, and Christian M. Grams
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 211–230, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-211-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-211-2025, 2025
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30 Sep 2024
The crucial representation of deep convection for the cyclogenesis of Medicane Ianos
Florian Pantillon, Silvio Davolio, Elenio Avolio, Carlos Calvo-Sancho, Diego Saul Carrió, Stavros Dafis, Emanuele Silvio Gentile, Juan Jesus Gonzalez-Aleman, Suzanne Gray, Mario Marcello Miglietta, Platon Patlakas, Ioannis Pytharoulis, Didier Ricard, Antonio Ricchi, Claudio Sanchez, and Emmanouil Flaounas
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1187–1205, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1187-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1187-2024, 2024
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13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

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