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 Jun 2024
Moisture transport axes: a unifying definition for monsoon air streams, atmospheric rivers, and warm moist intrusions
EGUsphere, 2024
Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 1 comment)
24 Jun 2024
The role of the Indian Ocean Dipole in modulating the Austral Spring ENSO teleconnection into the Southern Hemisphere
EGUsphere, 2024
Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
21 Jun 2024
The study of the impact of polar warming on global atmospheric circulation and mid-latitude baroclinic waves using a laboratory analog
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 863–880, 2024
18 Jun 2024
Changes in the tropical upper-tropospheric zonal momentum balance due to global warming
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 839–862, 2024
14 Jun 2024
Large-scale perspective on extreme near-surface winds in the central North Atlantic
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 821–837, 2024
11 Jun 2024
Revisiting the Moisture Budget of the Mediterranean Region in the ERA5 Reanalysis
EGUsphere, 2024
Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
06 Jun 2024
A comparison of the atmospheric response to the Weddell Sea Polynya in atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) of varying resolutions
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 805–820, 2024
03 Jun 2024
Assessing the skill of high-impact weather forecasts in southern South America: a study on Cut-off Lows
EGUsphere, 2024
Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 1 comment)
31 May 2024
Divergent convective outflow in ICON deep-convection-permitting and parameterised deep convection simulations
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 779–803, 2024
28 May 2024
A global climatology of sting-jet extratropical cyclones
EGUsphere, 2024
Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
Highlight articles
22 May 2024
Elevation-dependent warming: observations, models, and energetic mechanisms
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 763–777, 2024
12 May 2023
What distinguishes 100-year precipitation extremes over central European river catchments from more moderate extreme events?
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 427–447, 2023
28 Mar 2023
Investigation of links between dynamical scenarios and particularly high impact of Aeolus on numerical weather prediction (NWP) forecasts
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 249–264, 2023
18 Jan 2023
Reconciling conflicting evidence for the cause of the observed early 21st century Eurasian cooling
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 95–114, 2023
13 Jan 2023
The role of Rossby waves in polar weather and climate
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 61–80, 2023
21 Jul 2022
Trends in the tropospheric general circulation from 1979 to 2022
Weather Clim. Dynam., 3, 777–809, 2022
23 Nov 2021
Future summer warming pattern under climate change is affected by lapse-rate changes
Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 1093–1110, 2021
25 Oct 2021
A dynamical adjustment perspective on extreme event attribution
Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 971–989, 2021


