
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.
Recent papers
08 Feb 2023
Coastal climate variability in Northeast Greenland and the role of changing sea ice and fjord ice
EGUsphere,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
02 Feb 2023
Vortex streets to the lee of Madeira in a kilometre-resolution regional climate model
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 189–211,
2023 31 Jan 2023
Anomalous subtropical zonal winds drive decreases in southern Australian frontal rain
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 175–188,
2023 25 Jan 2023
Origin of low-tropospheric potential vorticity in Mediterranean cyclones
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 157–173,
2023 24 Jan 2023
Warm conveyor belts in present-day and future climate simulations – Part 1: Climatology and impacts
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 133–155,
2023 24 Jan 2023
European summer weather linked to North Atlantic freshwater events in preceding years
Weather Clim. Dynam. Discuss.,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
20 Jan 2023
Atmospheric response to wintertime Tibetan Plateau cold bias in climate models
EGUsphere,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
19 Jan 2023
Cloud-radiative impact on the dynamics and predictability of an idealized extratropical cyclone
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 115–132,
2023 18 Jan 2023
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Reconciling conflicting evidence for the cause of the observed early 21st century Eurasian cooling
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 95–114,
2023 16 Jan 2023
Increased vertical resolution in the stratosphere reveals role of gravity waves after sudden stratospheric warmings
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 81–93,
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18 Jan 2023
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Reconciling conflicting evidence for the cause of the observed early 21st century Eurasian cooling
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Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 61–80,
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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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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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The substructure of extremely hot summers in the Northern Hemisphere
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