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
10 Sep 2024
The connection between North Atlantic storm track regimes and eastern Mediterranean cyclonic activity
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1103–1116,
2024 06 Sep 2024
A storm-relative climatology of compound hazards in Mediterranean cyclones
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1079–1101,
2024 04 Sep 2024
A new characterisation of the North Atlantic eddy-driven jet using two-dimensional moment analysis
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1061–1078,
2024 29 Aug 2024
Solar cycle impacts on North Atlantic climate
EGUsphere,
2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
27 Aug 2024
Investigating the influence of changing ice surfaces on gravity wave formation and glacier boundary-layer flow with large-eddy simulations
EGUsphere,
2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 1 comment)
26 Aug 2024
The impact of the rotation rate on an aquaplanet's radiant energy budget: Insights from experiments varying the Coriolis parameter
EGUsphere,
2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
22 Aug 2024
Southwestward propagating quasi-biweekly oscillations over the South-West Indian Ocean during boreal winter: Characteristics and propagation mechanism
EGUsphere,
2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 2 comments)
19 Aug 2024
Linking compound weather extremes to Mediterranean cyclones, fronts, and airstreams
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1043–1060,
2024 19 Aug 2024
From Sea to Sky: Understanding the sea surface temperature impact on an atmospheric blocking event using sensitivity experiments with the ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic (ICON) model
EGUsphere,
2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
16 Aug 2024
Quantifying the spread in Sudden Stratospheric Warming wave forcing in CMIP6
EGUsphere,
2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
Highlight articles
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 23 Nov 2021
Future summer warming pattern under climate change is affected by lapse-rate changes
Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 1093–1110,
2021 25 Oct 2021
A dynamical adjustment perspective on extreme event attribution
Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 971–989,
2021