
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.
Recent papers
22 May 2023
The teleconnection of extreme El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events to the tropical North Atlantic in coupled climate models
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 471–487,
2023 22 May 2023
Atmospheric bias teleconnections associated with systematic SST errors in the tropical Indian Ocean
EGUsphere,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
16 May 2023
Cold wintertime air masses over Europe: Where do they come from and how do they form?
EGUsphere,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
15 May 2023
Model-simulated hydroclimate in the East Asian summer monsoon region during past and future climate: a pilot study with a moisture source perspective
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 449–470,
2023 12 May 2023
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What distinguishes 100-year precipitation extremes over central European river catchments from more moderate extreme events?
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 427–447,
2023 11 May 2023
Towards a holistic understanding of blocked regime dynamics through a combination of complementary diagnostic perspectives
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 399–425,
2023 09 May 2023
The impact of the Agulhas Current system on precipitation in southern Africa in regional climate simulations covering the recent past and future
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 381–397,
2023 05 May 2023
Linking Gulf Stream Air-Sea Interactions to the exceptional blocking episode in February 2019: A Lagrangian Perspective
EGUsphere,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
24 Apr 2023
Moist available potential energy of the mean state of the atmosphere and the thermodynamic potential for warm conveyor belts and convection
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 361–379,
2023Highlight articles
12 May 2023
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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
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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
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Reconciling conflicting evidence for the cause of the observed early 21st century Eurasian cooling
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 95–114,
2023 13 Jan 2023
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The role of Rossby waves in polar weather and climate
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 61–80,
2023 21 Jul 2022
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Trends in the tropospheric general circulation from 1979 to 2022
Weather Clim. Dynam., 3, 777–809,
2022 23 Nov 2021
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Future summer warming pattern under climate change is affected by lapse-rate changes
Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 1093–1110,
2021 25 Oct 2021
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A dynamical adjustment perspective on extreme event attribution
Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 971–989,
2021 12 Apr 2021
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African easterly waves in an idealized general circulation model: instability and wave packet diagnostics
Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 311–329,
2021 29 Mar 2021
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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
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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,
2021