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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

16 May 2025
Temporally and zonally varying atmospheric waveguides – climatologies and connections to quasi-stationary waves
Rachel H. White and Lualawi Mareshet Admasu
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 549–570, http://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-549-2025,http://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-549-2025, 2025
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16 May 2025
Understanding concurrent heatwaves from a meridional heat transport perspective
Valerio Lembo, Gabriele Messori, Davide Faranda, Vera Melinda Galfi, Rune Grand Graversen, and Flavio Emanuele Pons
EGUsphere, http://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2189,http://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2189, 2025
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15 May 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
EGUsphere, http://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1949,http://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1949, 2025
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14 May 2025
Dynamics of stratospheric wave reflection over the North Pacific
Michael K. Schutte, Alice Portal, Simon H. Lee, and Gabriele Messori
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 521–548, http://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-521-2025,http://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-521-2025, 2025
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14 May 2025
Lagrangian Tracking of Moisture Sources for the Record-Breaking Rainfall of Storm Ianos
Patricia Coll-Hidalgo, Raquel Nieto, Alexandre Ramos, Patrick Ludwig, and Luis Gimeno
EGUsphere, http://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1775,http://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1775, 2025
Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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07 May 2025
Observation based precipitation life cycle analysis of heavy rainfall events in the southeastern Alpine forelands
Stephanie J. Haas, Andreas Kvas, and Jürgen Fuchsberger
EGUsphere, http://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1819,http://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1819, 2025
Preprint under review for WCD (discussion: open, 2 comments)
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06 May 2025
Characteristics and dynamics of extreme winters in the Barents Sea in a changing climate
Katharina Hartmuth, Heini Wernli, and Lukas Papritz
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 505–520, http://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-505-2025,http://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-505-2025, 2025
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30 Apr 2025
Moisture ELevated Temperature (MELT) index: A novel index to capture dry and humid heatwaves
Kwesi Twentwewa Quagraine and Kwesi Akumenyi Quagraine
EGUsphere, http://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1574,http://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1574, 2025
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29 Apr 2025
The role of synoptic circulations in lower-tropospheric DSE variability over a South Asian heatwave hotspot
Hardik M. Shah and Joy M. Monteiro
External preprint server, http://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.174349794.49450607/v1,http://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.174349794.49450607/v1, 2025
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25 Apr 2025
The impact of the rotation rate on an aquaplanet's radiant energy budget: insights from experiments varying the Coriolis parameter
Abisha Mary Gnanaraj, Jiawei Bao, and Hauke Schmidt
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 489–503, http://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-489-2025,http://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-489-2025, 2025
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Highlight articles

24 Feb 2025
Sensitivity of tropical orographic precipitation to wind speed with implications for future projections
Quentin Nicolas and William R. Boos
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 231–244, http://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-231-2025,http://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-231-2025, 2025
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18 Feb 2025
Synoptic perspective on the conversion and maintenance of local available potential energy in extratropical cyclones
Marc Federer, Lukas Papritz, Michael Sprenger, and Christian M. Grams
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 211–230, http://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-211-2025,http://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-211-2025, 2025
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30 Sep 2024
The crucial representation of deep convection for the cyclogenesis of Medicane Ianos
Florian Pantillon, Silvio Davolio, Elenio Avolio, Carlos Calvo-Sancho, Diego Saul Carrió, Stavros Dafis, Emanuele Silvio Gentile, Juan Jesus Gonzalez-Aleman, Suzanne Gray, Mario Marcello Miglietta, Platon Patlakas, Ioannis Pytharoulis, Didier Ricard, Antonio Ricchi, Claudio Sanchez, and Emmanouil Flaounas
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1187–1205, http://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1187-2024,http://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1187-2024, 2024
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22 May 2024
Elevation-dependent warming: observations, models, and energetic mechanisms
Michael P. Byrne, William R. Boos, and Shineng Hu
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 763–777, http://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-763-2024,http://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-763-2024, 2024
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12 May 2023
What distinguishes 100-year precipitation extremes over central European river catchments from more moderate extreme events?
Florian Ruff and Stephan Pfahl
Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 427–447, http://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-4-427-2023,http://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-4-427-2023, 2023
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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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10 Feb 2025 Thank you to all our referees in 2024!

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