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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

12 Feb 2026
The Role of Rossby Wave Breaking in the Formation and Maintenance of Tropical-Extratropical Cloud Bands over the South Pacific
Romain Pilon, Andries Jan De Vries, and Daniela I. V. Domeisen
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-571,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-571, 2026
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11 Feb 2026
ENSO teleconnections in eddy-rich climate models
Bianca Mezzina, Christopher David Roberts, Matthias Aengenheyster, Rohit Ghosh, Malcolm John Roberts, and Marc Batlle Martin
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-547,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-547, 2026
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10 Feb 2026
Glacier thinning causes warmer and drier regional climate at the Jostedalsbreen ice cap in western Norway
Kristine Flacké Haualand, Marie Pontoppidan, Henning Åkesson, and Tobias Sauter
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-643,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-643, 2026
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06 Feb 2026
Forecast-based attribution of the role of stratospheric variability in weather extremes
William J. M. Seviour, Justin Finkel, Philip Rupp, Regan Mudhar, Amy H. Butler, Chaim I. Garfinkel, Peter Hitchcock, Blanca Ayarzagüena, Dong-Chan Hong, Yu-Kyung Hyun, Hera Kim, Eun-Pa Lim, Daniel De Maeseneire, Gabriele Messori, Gerbrand Koren, Michael Sigmond, Isla R. Simpson, and Seok-Woo Son
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-230,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-230, 2026
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06 Feb 2026
Coherent Modes of Northern Hemisphere Wind Extremes and Their Links to Global Large-Scale Drivers
Kai Bellinghausen, Birgit Hünicke, and Eduardo Zorita
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-523,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-523, 2026
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04 Feb 2026
QBOi El Niño Southern Oscillation experiments: assessing relationships between ENSO, MJO, and QBO
Dillon Elsbury, Federico Serva, Julie M. Caron, Seung-Yoon Back, Clara Orbe, Jadwiga H. Richter, James A. Anstey, Neal Butchart, Chih-Chieh Chen, Javier García-Serrano, Anne Glanville, Yoshio Kawatani, Tobias Kerzenmacher, Francois Lott, Hiroaki Naoe, Scott Osprey, Froila M. Palmeiro, Seok-Woo Son, Masakazu Taguchi, Stefan Versick, Shingo Watanabe, and Kohei Yoshida
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 317–339, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-317-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-317-2026, 2026
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04 Feb 2026
Rossby wave resonance for idealized jets on a beta-plane: towards a better understanding of the meridional wave structure
Volkmar Wirth and Nili Harnik
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 297–316, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-297-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-297-2026, 2026
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04 Feb 2026
Climate change effects on analogues of contrasting extratropical cyclones over the UK
Farrell Morgan, Ben Harvey, Kevin Hodges, and Oscar Martínez-Alvarado
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-289,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-289, 2026
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04 Feb 2026
Seasonal prediction of springtime tornado activity in the United States using a hybrid model
Matthew Graber, Zhuo Wang, and Robert J. Trapp
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-536,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-536, 2026
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04 Feb 2026
Dynamics of the Asian Summer Monsoon Anticyclone: Insights from Potential Vorticity Tendency Diagnostics
Ninghui Li, Jonathon S. Wright, Philip Rupp, Alison Ming, Shenglong Zhang, and Jie Gao
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-558,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-558, 2026
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Highlight articles

27 Nov 2025
Clear-air turbulence derived from in situ aircraft observation – a weather feature-based typology using ERA5 reanalysis
Ming Hon Franco Lee and Michael Sprenger
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 1583–1604, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1583-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1583-2025, 2025
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06 Nov 2025
Drivers and impacts of westerly moisture transport events in East Africa
Robert Peal and Emily Collier
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 1365–1378, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1365-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1365-2025, 2025
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21 Oct 2025
Estimating return periods for extreme events in climate models through Ensemble Boosting
Luna Bloin-Wibe, Robin Noyelle, Vincent Humphrey, Urs Beyerle, Reto Knutti, and Erich Fischer
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 1147–1177, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1147-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1147-2025, 2025
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26 Sep 2025
Learning predictable and informative dynamical drivers of extreme precipitation using variational autoencoders
Fiona R. Spuler, Marlene Kretschmer, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda, Yevgeniya Kovalchuk, and Theodore G. Shepherd
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 995–1014, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-995-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-995-2025, 2025
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05 Sep 2025
CYCLOPs: a Unified Framework for Surface Flux-Driven Cyclones Outside the Tropics
Kerry Emanuel, Tommaso Alberti, Stella Bourdin, Suzana J. Camargo, Davide Faranda, Emmanouil Flaounas, Juan Jesus Gonzalez-Aleman, Chia-Ying Lee, Mario Marcello Miglietta, Claudia Pasquero, Alice Portal, Hamish Ramsay, Marco Reale, and Romualdo Romero
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 901–926, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-901-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-901-2025, 2025
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News

13 Feb 2026 University of Western Ontario partners with Copernicus Publications to support open-access publishing

Copernicus Publications has signed a new agreement with Western Libraries at the University of Western Ontario, providing a 50% APC reduction for eligible corresponding authors submitting from 1 January 2026. Please read more.

13 Feb 2026 University of Western Ontario partners with Copernicus Publications to support open-access publishing

Copernicus Publications has signed a new agreement with Western Libraries at the University of Western Ontario, providing a 50% APC reduction for eligible corresponding authors submitting from 1 January 2026. Please read more.

03 Dec 2025 New MS Word template available for manuscript preparation

The existing MS Word template for authors has been significantly expanded and now includes many important notes on the standard sections that must be included in the manuscript. Please visit the "Submission" page, section "Templates for your manuscript file" and download the new template before writing your next manuscript.

03 Dec 2025 New MS Word template available for manuscript preparation

The existing MS Word template for authors has been significantly expanded and now includes many important notes on the standard sections that must be included in the manuscript. Please visit the "Submission" page, section "Templates for your manuscript file" and download the new template before writing your next manuscript.

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

Notice on the current situation in Ukraine

To show our support for Ukraine, all fees for papers from authors (first or corresponding authors) affiliated to Ukrainian institutions are automatically waived, regardless if these papers are co-authored by scientists affiliated to Russian and/or Belarusian institutions. The only exception will be if the corresponding author or first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) are from a Russian and/or Belarusian institution, in that case the APCs are not waived.

In accordance with current European restrictions, Copernicus Publications does not step into business relations with and issue APC-invoices (articles processing charges) to Russian and Belarusian institutions. The peer-review process and scientific exchange of our journals including preprint posting is not affected. However, these restrictions require that the first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) has an affiliation and invoice address outside Russia or Belarus.