
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
18 Jan 2021
Mid-level convection in a warm conveyor belt accelerates the jet stream
Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 37–53,
2021 18 Jan 2021
The impact of GPS and high-resolution radiosonde nudging on the
simulation of heavy precipitation during HyMeX IOP6
Weather Clim. Dynam. Discuss.,
2021Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
15 Jan 2021
Polar lows – moist-baroclinic cyclones developing in four different vertical wind shear environments
Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 19–36,
2021 15 Jan 2021
Development Processes of the East Asian Cyclones over the Korean
Peninsula
Weather Clim. Dynam. Discuss.,
2021Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
14 Jan 2021
An unsupervised learning approach to identifying blocking events:
the case of European summer
Weather Clim. Dynam. Discuss.,
2021Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
05 Jan 2021
The Wave Geometry of Final Stratospheric Warming Events
Weather Clim. Dynam. Discuss.,
2021Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 3 comments)
04 Jan 2021
Zonal scale and temporal variability of the Asian monsoon
anticyclone in an idealised numerical model
Weather Clim. Dynam. Discuss.,
2021Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
28 Dec 2020
Atmospheric blocking types: Frequencies and transitions
Weather Clim. Dynam. Discuss.,
2020Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
22 Dec 2020
The signature of the tropospheric gravity wave background in
observed mesoscale motion
Weather Clim. Dynam. Discuss.,
2020Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
Highlight articles
26 Feb 2020
The substructure of extremely hot summers in the Northern Hemisphere
Weather Clim. Dynam., 1, 45–62,
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