
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
07 Dec 2023
Identifying quasi-periodic variability using multivariate empirical mode decomposition: a case of the tropical Pacific
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 1087–1109,
2023 06 Dec 2023
How do different pathways connect the stratospheric polar vortex to its tropospheric precursors?
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 1071–1086,
2023 06 Dec 2023
Changes in the North Atlantic Oscillation over the 20th Century
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2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
05 Dec 2023
ClimaMeter: Contextualising Extreme Weather in a Changing Climate
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2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
01 Dec 2023
Variations in boundary layer stability across Antarctica: a comparison between coastal and interior sites
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 1045–1069,
2023 29 Nov 2023
Examining the dynamics of a Borneo vortex using a balance approximation tool
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 1019–1043,
2023 27 Nov 2023
Changes in the tropical upper tropospheric zonal momentum balance due to global warming
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2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
22 Nov 2023
The importance of diabatic processes for the dynamics of synoptic-scale extratropical weather systems—a review
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2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
21 Nov 2023
Intrinsic predictability limits arising from Indian Ocean Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) heating: effects on tropical and extratropical teleconnections
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 1001–1018,
2023 20 Nov 2023
Identification of high-wind features within extratropical cyclones using a probabilistic random forest – Part 2: Climatology over Europe
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 981–999,
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