
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
20 Sep 2023
Exploiting the signal-to-noise ratio in multi-system predictions of boreal summer precipitation and temperature
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 823–831,
2023 20 Sep 2023
Rainfall enhancement downwind of hills due to standing waves on the melting-level and the extreme rainfall of December 2015 in the Lake District of northwest England
EGUsphere,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
15 Sep 2023
Atmospheric response to cold wintertime Tibetan Plateau conditions over eastern Asia in climate models
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 809–822,
2023 11 Sep 2023
A critical evaluation of decadal solar cycle imprints in the MiKlip historical ensemble simulations
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 789–807,
2023 08 Sep 2023
Quantifying uncertainty in simulations of the West African Monsoon with the use of surrogate models
EGUsphere,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
08 Sep 2023
Exploring the vertical extent and deepening mechanisms of cut-off lows in the Southern Hemisphere: insights from eddy kinetic energy analysis
EGUsphere,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
08 Sep 2023
Exploring the daytime boundary layer evolution based on Doppler spectrum width from multiple coplanar wind lidars during CROSSINN
EGUsphere,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
06 Sep 2023
Classification of large-scale environments that drive the formation of mesoscale convective systems over southern West Africa
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 773–788,
2023 05 Sep 2023
A comparison of the atmospheric response to the Weddell Sea Polynya in AGCMs of varying resolutions
EGUsphere,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
04 Sep 2023
Opposite spectral properties of Rossby waves during weak and strong stratospheric polar vortex events
EGUsphere,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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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,
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Future summer warming pattern under climate change is affected by lapse-rate changes
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A dynamical adjustment perspective on extreme event attribution
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African easterly waves in an idealized general circulation model: instability and wave packet diagnostics
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A global climatological perspective on the importance of Rossby wave breaking and intense moisture transport for extreme precipitation events
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