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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

23 Jul 2026
Synoptic climatology of extratropical transition of tropical cyclones over the Southern Hemisphere
Chenhui Jin, Elizabeth A. Ritchie, and Neil J. Holbrook
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 1285–1306, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-1285-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-1285-2026, 2026
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23 Jul 2026
Downpours and deluges: Understanding the contrasting environments for localised and widespread heavy rainfall in the tropics
Dongqi Lin, Martin S. Singh, Yi-Xian Li, and Annabel J. Bowden
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-4291,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-4291, 2026
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22 Jul 2026
Quasi-Biennial Oscillation Modulation of the Semi-Annual Oscillation in QBOi Models
Aleena M. Jaison, Lesley J. Gray, Scott M. Osprey, James A. Anstey, Martin B. Andrews, Neal Butchart, Zhaoyang Chai, Dong-Chan Hong, Kai Huang, Yoshio Kawatani, Jeff R. Knight, Pu Lin, Francois Lott, Yixiong Lu, Hiroaki Naoe, Jadwiga H. Richter, Nan Rosenbloom, Federico Serva, Anne K. Smith, Seok-Woo Son, Qi Tang, Shingo Watanabe, Jinbo Xie, and Kohei Yoshida
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-4135,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-4135, 2026
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21 Jul 2026
Diurnal cycles of cloud and rainfall over North-East Queensland during the coral bleaching season
Alanah Chapman, Yi Huang, and Claire Vincent
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 1265–1284, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-1265-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-1265-2026, 2026
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20 Jul 2026
Complementarity between Large-Eddy Simulation and Synthetic-Aperture Radar observations to characterise surface wind in an extratropical cyclone
Nicolas Maury, Florian Pantillon, Sophia E. Brumer, Joris Pianezze, Aurélien Colin, Romain Husson, and Alexis Mouche
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3679,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3679, 2026
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16 Jul 2026
Identifying the diabatic processes driving the evolution of a sting jet: the case of Storm Ciarán
Ambrogio Volonté, Hanna Joos, Ming Hon Franco Lee, Richard Forbes, and Rémi Bouffet-Klein
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 1241–1264, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-1241-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-1241-2026, 2026
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16 Jul 2026
Potential vorticity modification by turbulence in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere – Part 1: Mechanistic understanding in an upper-level jet-front system
Ming Hon Franco Lee, Hanna Joos, Heini Wernli, Richard Forbes, and Michael Sprenger
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-4184,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-4184, 2026
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16 Jul 2026
Low-Frequency Stratospheric Variability and its Link to Surface Climate: Insights from Reanalysis and Multi-Century Coupled Climate Model Simulations
Liping Wang, Gang Chen, Xiuyuan Ding, Haijun Yang, and Daniela I. V. Domeisen
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-4150,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-4150, 2026
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14 Jul 2026
ENSO Teleconnection Patterns Modulate Australian Extratropical Cyclones
Linyuan Sun, Andréa S. Taschetto, Shayne McGregor, Lisa V. Alexander, and Chenhui Jin
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3344,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3344, 2026
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13 Jul 2026
Downslope windstorms in southeast Greenland – Part II: Multi-scale dynamics and spatial evolution of piteraq events
Tiago Silva, Kristine Flacké Haualand, Jacob Clement Yde, Johan Hassing Scheller, Jakob Abermann, Andreas Trügler, and Wolfgang Schöner
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3687,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3687, 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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