
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.
Recent papers
24 May 2022
The composite development and structure of intense synoptic-scale Arctic cyclones
EGUsphere,
2022Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
19 May 2022
Storm track response to uniform global warming downstream of an idealized sea surface temperature front
Weather Clim. Dynam., 3, 601–623,
2022 19 May 2022
Decadal variability in extratropical Rossby wave packet amplitude, phase, and phase speed
Weather Clim. Dynam. Discuss.,
2022Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
18 May 2022
Characterising the interaction of tropical and extratropical air masses controlling East Asian summer monsoon progression using a novel frontal detection approach
Weather Clim. Dynam., 3, 575–599,
2022 17 May 2022
Objective identification of high-wind features within extratropical cyclones using a probabilistic random forest (RAMEFI). Part I: Method and illustrative case studies
Weather Clim. Dynam. Discuss.,
2022Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
11 May 2022
Summertime changes in climate extremes over the peripheral Arctic regions after a sudden sea ice retreat
Weather Clim. Dynam., 3, 555–573,
2022 10 May 2022
Orographic resolution driving the improvements associated with horizontal resolution increase in the Northern Hemisphere winter mid-latitudes
Weather Clim. Dynam., 3, 535–553,
2022 10 May 2022
The global atmospheric energy transport analysed by a wavelength-based scale separation
Weather Clim. Dynam. Discuss.,
2022Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
03 May 2022
Supercell Convective Environments in Spain based on ERA5: Hail and Non-Hail Differences
Weather Clim. Dynam. Discuss.,
2022Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 1 comment)
02 May 2022
Classification of Alpine South Foehn based on five years of km-scale analysis data
Weather Clim. Dynam. Discuss.,
2022Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
Highlight articles
23 Nov 2021
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Future summer warming pattern under climate change is affected by lapse-rate changes
Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 1093–1110,
2021 25 Oct 2021
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A dynamical adjustment perspective on extreme event attribution
Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 971–989,
2021 12 Apr 2021
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African easterly waves in an idealized general circulation model: instability and wave packet diagnostics
Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 311–329,
2021 29 Mar 2021
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How Rossby wave breaking modulates the water cycle in the North Atlantic trade wind region
Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 281–309,
2021 09 Mar 2021
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A global climatological perspective on the importance of Rossby wave breaking and intense moisture transport for extreme precipitation events
Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 129–161,
2021 26 Feb 2020
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The substructure of extremely hot summers in the Northern Hemisphere
Weather Clim. Dynam., 1, 45–62,
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