Executive editors: Camille Li, Stephan Pfahl & Heini Wernli
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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05 Nov 2026
Boreal autumn to winter North Atlantic atmosphere–ocean coupling in large ensemble climate simulations
Yvonne Anderson, Amanda C. Maycock, Juliane Schwendike, Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Simon A. Josey, and Doug M. Smith
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 2155–2170, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-2155-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-2155-2026, 2026
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05 Nov 2026
Co-occurrence of atmospheric deserts over Europe with strong positive temperature anomalies, thunderstorms, and dust events
Fiona Fix-Hewitt, Achim Zeileis, Isabell Stucke, Reto Stauffer, and Georg J. Mayr
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 2133–2153, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-2133-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-2133-2026, 2026
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04 Nov 2026
Drivers of convection initiation in the Tropical Andes
Diego Urdiales-Flores, Francina Dominguez, Divyansh Chug, Grégoire Mariéthoz, Charles Jones, Leila M. V. Carvalho, and Nadav Peleg
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-6670,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-6670, 2026
Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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04 Nov 2026
The Seasonal Duality of Elevation-Dependent Warming in High-Latitude Mountains: A Century of Observations in Norway
Ketil Isaksen, Alessio M. Canclini, Herdis M. Gjelten, Cristian Lussana, Julia Lutz, Øyvind Nordli, Rasmus E. Benestad, Andreas Dobler, Inger Hanssen-Bauer, Thomas N. Nipen, Line Båserud, Erik Berge, Helene B. Erlandsen, Bernd Etzelmüller, Rune S. Ødegård, and Karianne Ødemark
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-5858,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-5858, 2026
Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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30 Oct 2026
Large-scale drivers of compounding hot and dry events in three breadbasket regions
Natalia Castillo Bautista, Marco Gaetani, Leonard F. Borchert, Benjamin Poschlod, Lukas Brunner, Jana Sillmann, and Mario L. V. Martina
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 2107–2132, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-2107-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-2107-2026, 2026
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30 Oct 2026
A causality-based perspective on Atlantic and tropical Pacific teleconnections to Northeast Brazil in seasonal forecast systems
Aleksander Lacima-Nadolnik, Verónica Torralba, Raül Marcos-Matamoros, Alberto Caldas-Alvarez, Paloma Trascasa-Castro, Carlos Delgado-Torres, Andrea Manrique-Suñén, Daniel Cabezón, Victòria Agudetse-Roures, Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière, and Albert Soret
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-5921,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-5921, 2026
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17 Aug 2026
Forecast-based attribution of the role of stratospheric variability in weather extremes
William J. M. Seviour, Justin Finkel, Philip Rupp, Regan Mudhar, Amy H. Butler, Chaim I. Garfinkel, Peter Hitchcock, Blanca Ayarzagüena, Dong-Chan Hong, Yu-Kyung Hyun, Hera Kim, Eun-Pa Lim, Daniel De Maeseneire, Gabriele Messori, Gerbrand Koren, Michael Sigmond, Isla R. Simpson, and Seok-Woo Son
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 1405–1423, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-1405-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-1405-2026, 2026
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03 Dec 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. 
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