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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

22 Apr 2025
On the role of moist and dry processes in atmospheric blocking biases in the Euro-Atlantic region in CMIP6
Edgar Dolores-Tesillos, Olivia Martius, and Julian Quinting
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 471–487, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-471-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-471-2025, 2025
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17 Apr 2025
Moisture transport axes: a unifying definition for tropical moisture exports, atmospheric rivers, and warm moist intrusions
Clemens Spensberger, Kjersti Konstali, and Thomas Spengler
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 431–446, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-431-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-431-2025, 2025
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17 Apr 2025
Revealing the dynamics of a local Alpine windstorm using large-eddy simulations
Nicolai Krieger, Heini Wernli, Michael Sprenger, and Christian Kühnlein
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 447–469, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-447-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-447-2025, 2025
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17 Apr 2025
Process-based diagnostics using atmospheric budget analysis and nudging technique to identify sources of model systematic errors
Chihiro Matsukawa, José M. Rodríguez, and Sean F. Milton
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1466,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1466, 2025
Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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16 Apr 2025
On the movement of atmospheric blocking systems and the associated temperature responses
Jonna van Mourik, Hylke de Vries, and Michiel Baatsen
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 413–429, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-413-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-413-2025, 2025
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16 Apr 2025
Physical drivers and trends of the recent delayed withdrawal of the Southwest Monsoon over Mainland Indochina
Kyaw Than Oo, Chen Haishan, Kazora Jonah, and Du Xinguan
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1159,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1159, 2025
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11 Apr 2025
An ERA5 climatology of synoptic-scale negative potential vorticity–jet interactions over the western North Atlantic
Alexander Lojko, Andrew C. Winters, Annika Oertel, Christiane Jablonowski, and Ashley E. Payne
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 387–411, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-387-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-387-2025, 2025
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10 Apr 2025
The Role of Topography, Land and Sea Surface Temperature on Quasi-Stationary Waves in Northern Hemisphere Winter: Insights from CAM6 Simulations
Cuiyi Fei and Rachel H. White
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1462,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1462, 2025
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09 Apr 2025
Summertime Arctic and North Atlantic-Eurasian Circulation Regimes under Climate Change
Johannes Max Müller, Oskar Andreas Landgren, and Dörthe Handorf
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1373,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1373, 2025
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07 Apr 2025
Weather systems associated with synoptic variability in the moist margin
Corey Robinson, Sugata Narsey, Christian Jakob, and Hanh Nguyen
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 369–385, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-369-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-369-2025, 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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