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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

24 Feb 2026
The role of atmospheric circulation changes in Western European warm season heat extremes
Douwe Sierk Noest, Izidine Pinto, Vikki Thompson, and Dim Coumou
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 439–452, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-439-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-439-2026, 2026
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24 Feb 2026
The role of the stratospheric state in upward wave flux prior to Sudden Stratospheric Warmings: a SNAPSI analysis
Blanca Ayarzagüena, Amy H. Butler, Peter Hitchcock, Chaim I. Garfinkel, Zac D. Lawrence, Wuhan Ning, Philip Rupp, Zheng Wu, Hilla Afargan-Gerstman, Natalia Calvo, Alvaro de la Cámara, Martin Jucker, Gerbrand Koren, Daniel De Maeseneire, Gloria L. Manney, Marisol Osman, Masakazu Taguchi, Cory Barton, Dong-Chan Hong, Yu-Kyung Hyun, Hera Kim, Jeff Knight, Piero Malguzzi, Daniele Mastrangelo, Jiyoung Oh, Inna Polichtchouk, Jadwiga H. Richter, Isla R. Simpson, Seok-Woo Son, Damien Specq, and Tim Stockdale
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 411–437, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-411-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-411-2026, 2026
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23 Feb 2026
Co-occurrence of gravity waves, vertical wind shear and turbulence in the lowermost stratosphere over the North Atlantic
Madhuri Umbarkar, Daniel Kunkel, and Ulrich Achatz
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-413,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-413, 2026
Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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23 Feb 2026
The Dual Effect of Urban Areas on Supercell Storms
Francesco De Martin, Christopher Rozoff, Andrea Zonato, Stefano Alessandrini, and Silvana Di Sabatino
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-815,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-815, 2026
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20 Feb 2026
Meteorological Drivers of Extreme Swells on the Peruvian Coast
Gonzalo Agurto, Soledad Collazo, and Ricardo García-Herrera
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-408,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-408, 2026
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19 Feb 2026
Constructing extreme heatwave storylines with differentiable climate models
Tim Whittaker and Alejandro Di Luca
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 393–410, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-393-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-393-2026, 2026
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19 Feb 2026
Extratropical teleconnections in a multi-model ensemble nudged towards the observed QBO
Martin B. Andrews, Neal Butchart, James A. Anstey, Ewa Bednarz, Dillon Elsbury, Jorge L. García-Franco, Vinay Kumar, Froila M. Palmeiro, Natasha E. Trencham, Kohei Yoshida, Zhaoyang Chai, Dong-Chan Hong, Kai Huang, Aleena M. Jaison, Yoshio Kawatani, Jeff R. Knight, Pu Lin, François Lott, Yixiong Lu, Hiroaki Naoe, Scott M. Osprey, Jadwiga H. Richter, Federico Serva, Seok-Woo Son, Qi Tang, Shingo Watanabe, and Jinbo Xie
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-737,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-737, 2026
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18 Feb 2026
Environmental characteristics associated with the development of deep warm core Mediterranean Cyclones
Lisa Bernini, Leone Cavicchia, Fabien Desbiolles, Enrico Scoccimarro, and Claudia Pasquero
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 367–391, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-367-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-367-2026, 2026
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18 Feb 2026
Contrasting the gravity wave forcing between nudged and free-running models and reanalysis
Radek Zajíček, Zuzana Procházková, and Petr Šácha
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-909,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-909, 2026
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17 Feb 2026
Topographic effects of Svalbard on warm and moist air intrusions into the Central Arctic
Jan Landwehrs, Sonja Murto, Florian Gebhardt, Ella Gilbert, and Annette Rinke
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 341–365, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-341-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-341-2026, 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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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.

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