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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
24 Jul 2024
Could an extremely cold central European winter such as 1963 happen again despite climate change?
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 943–957,
2024 24 Jul 2024
ClimaMeter: contextualizing extreme weather in a changing climate
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 959–983,
2024 22 Jul 2024
A climatological characterisation of North Atlantic winter jet streaks and their extremes
EGUsphere,
2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
19 Jul 2024
Towards a process-oriented understanding of the impact of stochastic perturbations on the model climate
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 927–942,
2024 19 Jul 2024
Model spread in multidecadal North Atlantic Oscillation variability connected to stratosphere–troposphere coupling
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 913–926,
2024 19 Jul 2024
Surrogate-based model parameter optimization in simulations of the West African monsoon
EGUsphere,
2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
19 Jul 2024
An object-based and Lagrangian view on an intense hailstorm day in Switzerland as represented in COSMO-1E ensemble hindcast simulations
EGUsphere,
2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
17 Jul 2024
Atmospheric Deserts: Detection and Consequences
EGUsphere,
2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
16 Jul 2024
Synoptic perspective on the conversion and maintenance of local available potential energy in extratropical cyclones
EGUsphere,
2024Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
10 Jul 2024
Large-ensemble assessment of the Arctic stratospheric polar vortex morphology and disruptions
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 895–912,
2024Highlight articles
22 May 2024
Elevation-dependent warming: observations, models, and energetic mechanisms
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 763–777,
2024 12 May 2023
What distinguishes 100-year precipitation extremes over central European river catchments from more moderate extreme events?
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 427–447,
2023 28 Mar 2023
Investigation of links between dynamical scenarios and particularly high impact of Aeolus on numerical weather prediction (NWP) forecasts
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 249–264,
2023 18 Jan 2023
Reconciling conflicting evidence for the cause of the observed early 21st century Eurasian cooling
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 95–114,
2023 13 Jan 2023
The role of Rossby waves in polar weather and climate
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 61–80,
2023 21 Jul 2022
Trends in the tropospheric general circulation from 1979 to 2022
Weather Clim. Dynam., 3, 777–809,
2022 23 Nov 2021
Future summer warming pattern under climate change is affected by lapse-rate changes
Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 1093–1110,
2021 25 Oct 2021
A dynamical adjustment perspective on extreme event attribution
Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 971–989,
2021