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
12 Nov 2024
Dynamic and thermodynamic contribution to the October 2019 exceptional rainfall in western central Africa
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1457–1472,
2024 11 Nov 2024
Detection and global climatology of two types of cyclone clustering
EGUsphere,
2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
05 Nov 2024
The impact of preceding convection on the development of Medicane Ianos and the sensitivity to sea surface temperature
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1429–1455,
2024 05 Nov 2024
Atmospheric Mixed Rossby Gravity Waves over Tropical Pacific during the Austral Summer
EGUsphere,
2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
04 Nov 2024
Linking Weather Regimes to the Variability of Warm-Season Tornado Activity over the United States
EGUsphere,
2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
24 Oct 2024
The importance of diabatic processes for the dynamics of synoptic-scale extratropical weather systems – a review
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1299–1408,
2024 24 Oct 2024
Systematic evaluation of the predictability of different Mediterranean cyclone categories
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1409–1427,
2024 24 Oct 2024
Attributing the occurrence and intensity of extreme events with the flow analogues method
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2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 1 comment)
22 Oct 2024
QBOi El Nino Southern Oscillation experiments Part I: Overview of experiment design and ENSO modulation of the QBO
EGUsphere,
2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 1 comment)
21 Oct 2024
Weather systems associated with synoptic variability in the moist margin
EGUsphere,
2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 1 comment)
Highlight articles
30 Sep 2024
The crucial representation of deep convection for the cyclogenesis of Medicane Ianos
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1187–1205,
2024 22 May 2024
Elevation-dependent warming: observations, models, and energetic mechanisms
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 763–777,
2024 12 May 2023
What distinguishes 100-year precipitation extremes over central European river catchments from more moderate extreme events?
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 427–447,
2023 28 Mar 2023
Investigation of links between dynamical scenarios and particularly high impact of Aeolus on numerical weather prediction (NWP) forecasts
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 249–264,
2023 18 Jan 2023
Reconciling conflicting evidence for the cause of the observed early 21st century Eurasian cooling
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 95–114,
2023 13 Jan 2023
The role of Rossby waves in polar weather and climate
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 61–80,
2023 21 Jul 2022
Trends in the tropospheric general circulation from 1979 to 2022
Weather Clim. Dynam., 3, 777–809,
2022