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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

18 Feb 2025
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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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18 Feb 2025
The Complex Teleconnections and Feedback Mechanisms between Mainland Indochina's Southwest Monsoon and Arctic Ocean Climate Variability
Kyaw Than Oo, Aminu Dalhatu Datti, Kazora Jonah, and Brian Odhiambo Ayugi
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-521,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-521, 2025
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17 Feb 2025
Diverse Causes of Extreme Rainfall in November 2023 over Equatorial Africa
Hermann N. Nana, Masilin Gudoshava, Roméo S. Tanessong, Alain T. Tamoffo, and Derbetini A. Vondou
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-76,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-76, 2025
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13 Feb 2025
Pacific Decadal Oscillation-driven interdecadal variability of snowfall over the Karakoram and the Western Himalayas
Priya Bharati, Pranab Deb, and Kieran Mark Rainwater Hunt
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 197–210, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-197-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-197-2025, 2025
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10 Feb 2025
Tropical cyclone intensification and extratropical transition under alternate climate conditions: a case study of Hurricane Ophelia (2017)
Marjolein Ribberink, Hylke de Vries, Nadia Bloemendaal, Michiel Baatsen, and Erik van Meijgaard
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-218,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-218, 2025
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07 Feb 2025
A process-based evaluation of biases in extratropical stratosphere–troposphere coupling in subseasonal forecast systems
Chaim I. Garfinkel, Zachary D. Lawrence, Amy H. Butler, Etienne Dunn-Sigouin, Irina Statnaia, Alexey Y. Karpechko, Gerbrand Koren, Marta Abalos, Blanca Ayarzagüena, David Barriopedro, Natalia Calvo, Alvaro de la Cámara, Andrew Charlton-Perez, Judah Cohen, Daniela I. V. Domeisen, Javier García-Serrano, Neil P. Hindley, Martin Jucker, Hera Kim, Robert W. Lee, Simon H. Lee, Marisol Osman, Froila M. Palmeiro, Inna Polichtchouk, Jian Rao, Jadwiga H. Richter, Chen Schwartz, Seok-Woo Son, Masakazu Taguchi, Nicholas L. Tyrrell, Corwin J. Wright, and Rachel W.-Y. Wu
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 171–195, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-171-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-171-2025, 2025
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03 Feb 2025
Seasonal Predictability of Vapor Pressure Deficit in the western United States
Melissa Leah Breeden, Andrew Hoell, Rochelle Pauline Worsnop, John Robert Albers, Michael T. Hobbins, Rachel Maya Robinson, and Daniel James Vimont
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-115,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-115, 2025
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31 Jan 2025
Frequency anomalies and characteristics of extratropical cyclones during extremely wet, dry, windy, and calm seasons in the extratropics
Hanin Binder and Heini Wernli
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 151–170, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-151-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-151-2025, 2025
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29 Jan 2025
Two different perspectives on heatwaves within the Lagrangian framework
Amelie Mayer and Volkmar Wirth
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 131–150, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-131-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-131-2025, 2025
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28 Jan 2025
Learning predictable and informative dynamical drivers of extreme precipitation using variational autoencoders
Fiona Raphaela Spuler, Marlene Kretschmer, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda, Yevgeniya Kovalchuk, and Theodore G. Shepherd
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-4115,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-4115, 2025
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Highlight articles

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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22 May 2024
Elevation-dependent warming: observations, models, and energetic mechanisms
Michael P. Byrne, William R. Boos, and Shineng Hu
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 763–777, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-763-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-763-2024, 2024
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12 May 2023
What distinguishes 100-year precipitation extremes over central European river catchments from more moderate extreme events?
Florian Ruff and Stephan Pfahl
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 427–447, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-4-427-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-4-427-2023, 2023
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28 Mar 2023
Investigation of links between dynamical scenarios and particularly high impact of Aeolus on numerical weather prediction (NWP) forecasts
Anne Martin, Martin Weissmann, and Alexander Cress
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 249–264, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-4-249-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-4-249-2023, 2023
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