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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

06 Jan 2026
Tropical cyclone intensification and extratropical transition under alternate climate conditions: a case study of Hurricane Ophelia (2017)
Marjolein Ribberink, Hylke de Vries, Nadia Bloemendaal, Michiel Baatsen, and Erik van Meijgaard
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 37–64, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-37-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-37-2026, 2026
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06 Jan 2026
Properties and characteristics of atmospheric deserts over Europe: a first statistical analysis
Fiona Fix-Hewitt, Achim Zeileis, Isabell Stucke, Reto Stauffer, and Georg J. Mayr
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 17–35, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-17-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-17-2026, 2026
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05 Jan 2026
The multi-year negative Indian Ocean Dipole of 2021–2022
Ankur Srivastava, Gill M. Martin, Maheswar Pradhan, Suryachandra A. Rao, and Sarah Ineson
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 1–15, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-1-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-1-2026, 2026
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05 Jan 2026
A life cycle definition of year-round weather regimes in the North Atlantic European region
Christian M. Grams
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6385,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6385, 2026
Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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05 Jan 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
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6285,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6285, 2026
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05 Jan 2026
Physical Processes Leading to Extreme Day-to-day Temperature Change – Part II: Future Climate Change
Kalpana Hamal and Stephan Pfahl
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6343,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6343, 2026
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04 Jan 2026
Tropospheric Circulations Modulating the Boreal Winter Lower Stratospheric Polar Vortex
Songmiao Fan and Nathaniel C. Johnson
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6381,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6381, 2026
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04 Jan 2026
Predictability of cyclones associated with heavy precipitation events in the Sahara
Guorong Ling, Hilla Afargan-Gerstman, and Moshe Armon
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6438,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6438, 2026
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02 Jan 2026
The role of individual forcings in driving the wave–like recent trends in northern hemisphere summer atmospheric circulation
Gerard Marcet-Carbonell, Markus G. Donat, and Carlos Delgado-Torres
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6277,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6277, 2026
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02 Jan 2026
The impact of stochastic sea ice perturbations on seasonal forecasts
Kristian Strommen, Michael Mayer, Andrea Storto, Jonas Spaeth, and Steffen Tietsche
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6402,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6402, 2026
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Highlight articles

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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26 Sep 2025
Learning predictable and informative dynamical drivers of extreme precipitation using variational autoencoders
Fiona R. Spuler, Marlene Kretschmer, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda, Yevgeniya Kovalchuk, and Theodore G. Shepherd
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 995–1014, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-995-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-995-2025, 2025
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05 Sep 2025
CYCLOPs: a Unified Framework for Surface Flux-Driven Cyclones Outside the Tropics
Kerry Emanuel, Tommaso Alberti, Stella Bourdin, Suzana J. Camargo, Davide Faranda, Emmanouil Flaounas, Juan Jesus Gonzalez-Aleman, Chia-Ying Lee, Mario Marcello Miglietta, Claudia Pasquero, Alice Portal, Hamish Ramsay, Marco Reale, and Romualdo Romero
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 901–926, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-901-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-901-2025, 2025
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03 Dec 2025 New MS Word template available for manuscript preparation

The existing MS Word template for authors has been significantly expanded and now includes many important notes on the standard sections that must be included in the manuscript. Please visit the "Submission" page, section "Templates for your manuscript file" and download the new template before writing your next manuscript.

03 Dec 2025 New MS Word template available for manuscript preparation

The existing MS Word template for authors has been significantly expanded and now includes many important notes on the standard sections that must be included in the manuscript. Please visit the "Submission" page, section "Templates for your manuscript file" and download the new template before writing your next manuscript.

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

10 Feb 2025 Thank you to all our referees in 2024!

A big thank you to all referees for their volunteer work in providing fair, thorough, and constructive peer-review reports! Through their invaluable contribution our interactive open-access journals maintain their high scientific standards and their ongoing success.

10 Feb 2025 Thank you to all our referees in 2024!

A big thank you to all referees for their volunteer work in providing fair, thorough, and constructive peer-review reports! Through their invaluable contribution our interactive open-access journals maintain their high scientific standards and their ongoing success.

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