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
17 Apr 2024
Quantifying uncertainty in simulations of the West African monsoon with the use of surrogate models
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 511–536,
2024 11 Apr 2024
The movement of atmospheric blocking systems: can we still assume quasi-stationarity?
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2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
11 Apr 2024
Simultaneous Bering Sea and Labrador Sea ice melt extremes in March 2023: A confluence of meteorological events aligned with stratosphere-troposphere interactions
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2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
10 Apr 2024
The Connection Between North Atlantic Storm Track Regimes and Eastern Mediterranean Cyclonic Activity
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2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
05 Apr 2024
Influence of radiosonde observations on the sharpness and altitude of the midlatitude tropopause in the ECMWF IFS
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 491–509,
2024 04 Apr 2024
Time-varying Atmospheric Waveguides – Climatologies and Connections to Quasi-Stationary Waves
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2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
04 Apr 2024
Western disturbances and climate variability: a review of recent developments
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04 Apr 2024
Characteristics and dynamics of extreme winters in the Barents Sea in a changing climate
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2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
03 Apr 2024
Analysing 23 years of warm-season derechos in France: a climatology and investigation of synoptic and environmental changes
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 439–461,
2024 03 Apr 2024
A Lagrangian framework for detecting and characterizing the descent of foehn from Alpine to local scales
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 463–489,
2024Highlight articles
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 12 Apr 2021
African easterly waves in an idealized general circulation model: instability and wave packet diagnostics
Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 311–329,
2021 29 Mar 2021
How Rossby wave breaking modulates the water cycle in the North Atlantic trade wind region
Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 281–309,
2021 09 Mar 2021
A global climatological perspective on the importance of Rossby wave breaking and intense moisture transport for extreme precipitation events
Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 129–161,
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