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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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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-43-2025,
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-43-2025, 2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1523-2024,
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1523-2024, 2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1187-2024,
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1187-2024, 2024
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Reconciling conflicting evidence for the cause of the observed early 21st century Eurasian cooling
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Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 95–114,
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-4-95-2023,
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