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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

05 Mar 2025
Atmospheric mixed Rossby–gravity waves over the tropical Pacific during the austral summer
Hugo A. Braga and Victor Magaña
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 265–277, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-265-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-265-2025, 2025
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26 Feb 2025
Revisiting the moisture budget of the Mediterranean region in the ERA5 reanalysis
Roshanak Tootoonchi, Simona Bordoni, and Roberta D'Agostino
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 245–263, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-245-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-245-2025, 2025
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24 Feb 2025
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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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21 Feb 2025
Estimating return periods for extreme events in climate models through Ensemble Boosting
Luna Bloin-Wibe, Robin Noyelle, Vincent Humphrey, Urs Beyerle, Reto Knutti, and Erich Fischer
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-525,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-525, 2025
Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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21 Feb 2025
Southern Annular Mode Persistence and Westerly Jet: A Reassessment Using High-Resolution Global Models
Ting-Chen Chen, Hugues Goosse, Matthias Aengenheyster, Kristian Strommen, Christopher Roberts, Malcolm Roberts, Rohit Ghosh, Jin-Song von Storch, and Stephy Libera
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-666,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-666, 2025
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19 Feb 2025
Assessing stratospheric contributions to subseasonal predictions of precipitation after the 2018 SSW from SNAPSI
Ying Dai, Peter Hitchcock, Amy H. Butler, Chaim I. Garfinkel, and William J. M. Seviour
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-484,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-484, 2025
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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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18 Feb 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
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-273,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-273, 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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Highlight articles

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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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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