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
17 Oct 2024
The impact of synoptic storm likelihood on European subseasonal forecast uncertainty and their modulation by the stratosphere
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2024 14 Oct 2024
Spatio-temporal averaging of jets obscures the reinforcement of baroclinicity by latent heating
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1269–1286,
2024 09 Oct 2024
Arctic climate response to European radiative forcing: a deep learning study on circulation pattern changes
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1223–1268,
2024 08 Oct 2024
Two different mechanisms cause severe hot droughts in the western Amazon
EGUsphere,
2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
08 Oct 2024
Trends and seasonal signals in Atlantic feature-based jet stream characteristics and in weather types
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2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
07 Oct 2024
Impact of stochastic physics on the representation of atmospheric blocking in EC-Earth3
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1207–1222,
2024 02 Oct 2024
Quantifying the local predictability of the 2021 sudden stratospheric warming event using a novel nonlinear method
EGUsphere,
2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
01 Oct 2024
Long vs. Short: Understanding the dynamics of persistent summer hot spells in Europe
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2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
30 Sep 2024
A simple model linking radiative–convective instability, convective aggregation and large-scale dynamics
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1153–1185,
2024 30 Sep 2024
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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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Investigation of links between dynamical scenarios and particularly high impact of Aeolus on numerical weather prediction (NWP) forecasts
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 249–264,
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Reconciling conflicting evidence for the cause of the observed early 21st century Eurasian cooling
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The role of Rossby waves in polar weather and climate
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Trends in the tropospheric general circulation from 1979 to 2022
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Future summer warming pattern under climate change is affected by lapse-rate changes
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