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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

25 Mar 2025
Quantifying the spread in sudden stratospheric warming wave forcing in CMIP6
Verónica Martínez-Andradas, Alvaro de la Cámara, Pablo Zurita-Gotor, François Lott, and Federico Serva
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 329–343, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-329-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-329-2025, 2025
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20 Mar 2025
Assessing the skill of high-impact weather forecasts in southern South America: a study on cut-off lows
Belén Choquehuanca, Alejandro Anibal Godoy, and Ramiro Ignacio Saurral
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 317–327, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-317-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-317-2025, 2025
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20 Mar 2025
Arctic temperature and precipitation extremes in present-day and future storyline-based variable resolution Community Earth System Model simulations
René R. Wijngaard, Willem Jan van de Berg, Christaan T. van Dalum, Adam R. Herrington, and Xavier J. Levine
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1070,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1070, 2025
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18 Mar 2025
An idealized model for the spatial structure of the eddy-driven Ferrel cell in mid-latitudes
Woosok Moon, Seung Pyo Lee, Elian Vanderborght, Georgy Manucharyan, and Henk Dijkstra
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1004,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1004, 2025
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14 Mar 2025
A methodology for tracking cold spells in space and time: development, evaluation and applications
Weronika Osmolska, Charles Chemel, Amanda Maycock, and Paul Field
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1014,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1014, 2025
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14 Mar 2025
Numerical reconstruction of a rapidly developing bow echo over northeastern Poland on 21 August 2007 using near-grid-scale stochastic convection initiation
Damian K. Wójcik, Michał Z. Ziemiański, and Wojciech W. Grabowski
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1017,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1017, 2025
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12 Mar 2025
Climatology, long-term variability and trend of resolved gravity wave drag in the stratosphere revealed by ERA 5
Zuzana Procházková, Radek Zajíček, and Petr Šácha
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-939,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-939, 2025
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07 Mar 2025
A climatological characterization of North Atlantic winter jet streaks and their extremes
Mona Bukenberger, Lena Fasnacht, Stefan Rüdisühli, and Sebastian Schemm
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 279–316, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-279-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-279-2025, 2025
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07 Mar 2025
The impact of tropospheric blockings on duration of the sudden stratospheric warmings in boreal winter 2023/24
Ekaterina Vorobeva and Yvan Orsolini
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-976,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-976, 2025
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06 Mar 2025
Mean state and day-to-day variability of tropospheric circulation in planetary-scale barotropic Rossby waves during Eurasian heat extremes in CMIP models
Iana Strigunova, Frank Lunkeit, Nedjeljka Žagar, and Damjan Jelić
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-892,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-892, 2025
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Highlight articles

24 Feb 2025
Sensitivity of tropical orographic precipitation to wind speed with implications for future projections
Quentin Nicolas and William R. Boos
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 231–244, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-231-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-231-2025, 2025
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18 Feb 2025
Synoptic perspective on the conversion and maintenance of local available potential energy in extratropical cyclones
Marc Federer, Lukas Papritz, Michael Sprenger, and Christian M. Grams
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 211–230, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-211-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-211-2025, 2025
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30 Sep 2024
The crucial representation of deep convection for the cyclogenesis of Medicane Ianos
Florian Pantillon, Silvio Davolio, Elenio Avolio, Carlos Calvo-Sancho, Diego Saul Carrió, Stavros Dafis, Emanuele Silvio Gentile, Juan Jesus Gonzalez-Aleman, Suzanne Gray, Mario Marcello Miglietta, Platon Patlakas, Ioannis Pytharoulis, Didier Ricard, Antonio Ricchi, Claudio Sanchez, and Emmanouil Flaounas
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1187–1205, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1187-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1187-2024, 2024
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22 May 2024
Elevation-dependent warming: observations, models, and energetic mechanisms
Michael P. Byrne, William R. Boos, and Shineng Hu
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 763–777, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-763-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-763-2024, 2024
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12 May 2023
What distinguishes 100-year precipitation extremes over central European river catchments from more moderate extreme events?
Florian Ruff and Stephan Pfahl
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 427–447, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-4-427-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-4-427-2023, 2023
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