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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

28 Jan 2026
Linking European droughts to year-round weather regimes
Onaïa Savary, Constantin Ardilouze, and Julien Cattiaux
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 223–245, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-223-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-223-2026, 2026
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27 Jan 2026
A new look at the jet-storm track relationship in the North Pacific and North Atlantic
Nora Zilibotti, Heini Wernli, and Sebastian Schemm
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 201–221, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-201-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-201-2026, 2026
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23 Jan 2026
Synoptic climatology of extratropical transition of tropical cyclones over the Southern Hemisphere
Chenhui Jin, Elizabeth A. Ritchie, and Neil J. Holbrook
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6321,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6321, 2026
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23 Jan 2026
Quantifying Water Vapor Age: A Dynamical Constraint on the Response of the Global Water Cycle to Climate Change
Philippe Boulanger and Robert Fajber
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6395,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6395, 2026
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23 Jan 2026
Distinct bias structures for extratropical cyclones with strong or weak diabatic heating
Qidi Yu, Clemens Spensberger, Linus Magnusson, and Thomas Spengler
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-257,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-257, 2026
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22 Jan 2026
Projected climate change in Fennoscandia – and its relation to ensemble spread and global trends
Gustav Strandberg, August Thomasson, Lars Bärring, Erik Kjellström, Michael Sahlin, Renate Anna Irma Wilcke, and Grigory Nikulin
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 185–200, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-185-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-185-2026, 2026
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22 Jan 2026
Assimilating WIVERN windpseudo-observations in WRF model: an application to the outstanding case of the Medicane Ianos
Stefano Federico, Rosa Claudia Torcasio, Claudio Transerici, Mario Montopoli, Cinzia Cambiotti, Francesco Manconi, Alessandro Battaglia, and Maryam Pourshamsi
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 165–183, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-165-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-165-2026, 2026
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21 Jan 2026
Storylines of extreme summer temperatures in southern South America
Solange Suli, David Barriopedro, Ricardo García-Herrera, Soledad Collazo, Antonello Squintu, and Matilde Rusticucci
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 149–164, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-149-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-149-2026, 2026
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16 Jan 2026
Trade wind regimes during the Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching season
Lara S. Richards, Steven T. Siems, Yi Huang, Daniel P. Harrison, and Wenhui Zhao
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 109–127, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-109-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-109-2026, 2026
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16 Jan 2026
Predictability of extreme surface weather associated with Mediterranean cyclones in ECMWF ensemble forecasts – Part 1: Method and case studies
Katharina Hartmuth, Dominik Büeler, and Heini Wernli
Weather Clim. Dynam., 7, 129–148, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-129-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-129-2026, 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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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.

10 Feb 2025 Thank you to all our referees in 2024!

A big thank you to all referees for their volunteer work in providing fair, thorough, and constructive peer-review reports! Through their invaluable contribution our interactive open-access journals maintain their high scientific standards and their ongoing success.

10 Feb 2025 Thank you to all our referees in 2024!

A big thank you to all referees for their volunteer work in providing fair, thorough, and constructive peer-review reports! Through their invaluable contribution our interactive open-access journals maintain their high scientific standards and their ongoing success.

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