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Executive editors: Camille Li, Stephan Pfahl & Heini Wernli
eISSN: 2698-4016
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

25 Jun 2026
A low-dimensional framework for interpreting Northern Hemisphere winter extratropical precipitation trends
Ha-Rim Kim, Changhyun Yoo, Hyodae Seo, and Baek-Min Kim
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3431,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3431, 2026
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25 Jun 2026
Glacier thinning causes warmer and drier regional climate at the Jostedalsbreen ice cap in western Norway
Kristine Flacké Haualand, Marie Pontoppidan, Henning Åkesson, and Tobias Sauter
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 1033–1050, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-1033-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-1033-2026, 2026
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25 Jun 2026
Impact, drivers and pathways of two Arctic atmospheric rivers in April 2020
Luisa E. Avilés-Podgurski, Patrick Martineau, Hua Lu, Ayako Yamamoto, Amanda C. Maycock, Andrew Orr, Tony Phillips, Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Anna E. Hogg, Grzegorz Muszynski, and Andrew Fleming
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 1051–1071, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-1051-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-1051-2026, 2026
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24 Jun 2026
Physical Climate Drivers of East Africa’s March-April-May (MAM) seasonal rainfall Identified through Machine Learning Analysis
Sinclair Chinyoka, Masilin Gudoshava, Hussen Seid Endris, Shingirai Shepard Nangombe, Jordi Vila-Guerau De Arellano, and Gert-Jan Steeneveld
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2832,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2832, 2026
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23 Jun 2026
The Madden Julian Oscillation in high-resolution coupled climate simulations: mean state evaluation and historical variability in IFS-NEMO
Bernardo Maraldi, Nuno Rocha Monteiro, Marvin Axness, Daria Kuznetsova, Pablo Ortega, and Francisco Doblas-Reyes
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3251,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3251, 2026
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17 Jun 2026
A synoptic-dynamic interpretation of the Southern Annular Mode
Michael A. Barnes, James S. Risbey, Teresa J. Parker, Nicholas Earl-Jones, Carly Tozer, and Didier P. Monselesan
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3141,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3141, 2026
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17 Jun 2026
Physical processes leading to extreme day-to-day temperature change – Part 2: Future climate change
Kalpana Hamal and Stephan Pfahl
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 1009–1032, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-1009-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-1009-2026, 2026
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16 Jun 2026
Three-dimensional atmospheric circulation teleconnections in the Northern Hemisphere
Haihong Yang, Shujuan Hu, Jianjun Peng, Wenxin Zhang, Zihan Hao, Yuchen Wu, and Zhiwei Zhu
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2824,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2824, 2026
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16 Jun 2026
Global monsoon in ICON: the scale-dependent response of Northern Hemisphere monsoons
Praveen K. Pothapakula, Andreas F. Prein, Anusha Sunkisala, and Anurag Dipankar
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 979–1007, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-979-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-979-2026, 2026
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16 Jun 2026
Isolating flow-dependent uncertainty in ensemble reanalysis data and its relation to Euro-Atlantic weather regimes and warm conveyor belts
Henry Schoeller and Stephan Pfahl
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3137,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3137, 2026
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Highlight articles

08 Apr 2026
Contrasting impact of different Mediterranean cyclones on the hydrological cycle and ocean heat content
Yonatan Givon, Douglas Keller Jr., Philippe Drobinski, and Shira Raveh-Rubin
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 567–582, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-567-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-567-2026, 2026
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12 Mar 2026
The impact of Aeolus observations on wind and rainfall predictions
Maurus Borne, Peter Knippertz, Michael Rennie, and Martin Weissmann
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 489–505, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-489-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-489-2026, 2026
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27 Nov 2025
Clear-air turbulence derived from in situ aircraft observation – a weather feature-based typology using ERA5 reanalysis
Ming Hon Franco Lee and Michael Sprenger
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 1583–1604, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1583-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1583-2025, 2025
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06 Nov 2025
Drivers and impacts of westerly moisture transport events in East Africa
Robert Peal and Emily Collier
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 1365–1378, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1365-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1365-2025, 2025
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21 Oct 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
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 1147–1177, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1147-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1147-2025, 2025
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