
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
13 Mar 2023
A linear assessment of waveguidability for barotropic Rossby waves in different large-scale flow configurations
EGUsphere,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
07 Mar 2023
The evolution of precipitation and warm conveyor belts during the central southwest Asia wet season
EGUsphere,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
27 Feb 2023
Understanding the dependence of mean precipitation on convective treatment in tropical aquachannel experiments
Weather Clim. Dynam. Discuss.,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 1 comment)
27 Feb 2023
Changes in synoptic circulations associated with documented derechos over France in the past 70 years
Weather Clim. Dynam. Discuss.,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
24 Feb 2023
Predictable Decadal Forcing of the North Atlantic Jet Stream by Sub-Polar North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures
EGUsphere,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
23 Feb 2023
Using large ensembles to quantify the impact of sudden stratospheric warmings and their precursors on the North Atlantic Oscillation
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 213–228,
2023 21 Feb 2023
Strengthening gradients in the tropical west Pacific connect to European summer temperatures on sub-seasonal timescales
Weather Clim. Dynam. Discuss.,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
21 Feb 2023
How do different pathways connect the stratospheric polar vortex to its tropospheric precursors?
Weather Clim. Dynam. Discuss.,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
14 Feb 2023
Declining Sea Ice and Its Relationship with Arctic Cyclones in Current and Future Climate Part I: Current Climatology in CMIP6 Models
Weather Clim. Dynam. Discuss.,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
14 Feb 2023
Exploiting the signal to noise ratio in multi-system predictions of summertime precipitation and maximum temperatures in Europe
EGUsphere,
2023Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
Highlight articles
18 Jan 2023
| Highlight paper
Reconciling conflicting evidence for the cause of the observed early 21st century Eurasian cooling
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 95–114,
2023 13 Jan 2023
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The role of Rossby waves in polar weather and climate
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 61–80,
2023 21 Jul 2022
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Trends in the tropospheric general circulation from 1979 to 2022
Weather Clim. Dynam., 3, 777–809,
2022 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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