09 Jan 2025
Western disturbances and climate variability: a review of recent developments
Kieran M. R. Hunt, Jean-Philippe Baudouin, Andrew G. Turner, A. P. Dimri, Ghulam Jeelani, Pooja, Rajib Chattopadhyay, Forest Cannon, T. Arulalan, M. S. Shekhar, T. P. Sabin, and Eliza Palazzi
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 43–112, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-43-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-43-2025, 2025 | 3,802 views
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24 Jul 2024
Could an extremely cold central European winter such as 1963 happen again despite climate change?
Sebastian Sippel, Clair Barnes, Camille Cadiou, Erich Fischer, Sarah Kew, Marlene Kretschmer, Sjoukje Philip, Theodore G. Shepherd, Jitendra Singh, Robert Vautard, and Pascal Yiou
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 943–957, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-943-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-943-2024, 2024 | 3,564 views
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24 Jul 2024
ClimaMeter: contextualizing extreme weather in a changing climate
Davide Faranda, Gabriele Messori, Erika Coppola, Tommaso Alberti, Mathieu Vrac, Flavio Pons, Pascal Yiou, Marion Saint Lu, Andreia N. S. Hisi, Patrick Brockmann, Stavros Dafis, Gianmarco Mengaldo, and Robert Vautard
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 959–983, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-959-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-959-2024, 2024 | 3,494 views
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24 Oct 2024
The importance of diabatic processes for the dynamics of synoptic-scale extratropical weather systems – a review
Heini Wernli and Suzanne L. Gray
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1299–1408, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1299-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1299-2024, 2024 | 3,462 views
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17 Dec 2024
A global climatology of sting-jet extratropical cyclones
Suzanne L. Gray, Ambrogio Volonté, Oscar Martínez-Alvarado, and Ben J. Harvey
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1523–1544, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1523-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1523-2024, 2024 | 1,934 views
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10 Jul 2024
Large-ensemble assessment of the Arctic stratospheric polar vortex morphology and disruptions
Ales Kuchar, Maurice Öhlert, Roland Eichinger, and Christoph Jacobi
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 895–912, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-895-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-895-2024, 2024 | 1,823 views
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30 Sep 2024
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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, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1187-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1187-2024, 2024 | 1,774 views
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04 Sep 2024
A new characterisation of the North Atlantic eddy-driven jet using two-dimensional moment analysis
Jacob Perez, Amanda C. Maycock, Stephen D. Griffiths, Steven C. Hardiman, and Christine M. McKenna
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1061–1078, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1061-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1061-2024, 2024 | 1,557 views
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31 Jul 2024
Circulation responses to surface heating and implications for polar amplification
Peter Yu Feng Siew, Camille Li, Stefan Pieter Sobolowski, Etienne Dunn-Sigouin, and Mingfang Ting
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 985–996, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-985-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-985-2024, 2024 | 1,534 views
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19 Jul 2024
Model spread in multidecadal North Atlantic Oscillation variability connected to stratosphere–troposphere coupling
Rémy Bonnet, Christine M. McKenna, and Amanda C. Maycock
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 913–926, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-913-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-913-2024, 2024 | 1,493 views
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07 Feb 2025
A process-based evaluation of biases in extratropical stratosphere–troposphere coupling in subseasonal forecast systems
Chaim I. Garfinkel, Zachary D. Lawrence, Amy H. Butler, Etienne Dunn-Sigouin, Irene Erner, Alexey Y. Karpechko, Gerbrand Koren, Marta Abalos, Blanca Ayarzagüena, David Barriopedro, Natalia Calvo, Alvaro de la Cámara, Andrew Charlton-Perez, Judah Cohen, Daniela I. V. Domeisen, Javier García-Serrano, Neil P. Hindley, Martin Jucker, Hera Kim, Robert W. Lee, Simon H. Lee, Marisol Osman, Froila M. Palmeiro, Inna Polichtchouk, Jian Rao, Jadwiga H. Richter, Chen Schwartz, Seok-Woo Son, Masakazu Taguchi, Nicholas L. Tyrrell, Corwin J. Wright, and Rachel W.-Y. Wu
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 171–195, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-171-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-171-2025, 2025 | 1,461 views
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09 Oct 2024
Arctic climate response to European radiative forcing: a deep learning study on circulation pattern changes
Sina Mehrdad, Dörthe Handorf, Ines Höschel, Khalil Karami, Johannes Quaas, Sudhakar Dipu, and Christoph Jacobi
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1223–1268, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1223-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1223-2024, 2024 | 1,400 views
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06 Aug 2024
A linear assessment of barotropic Rossby wave propagation in different background flow configurations
Antonio Segalini, Jacopo Riboldi, Volkmar Wirth, and Gabriele Messori
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 997–1012, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-997-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-997-2024, 2024 | 1,391 views
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19 Aug 2024
Linking compound weather extremes to Mediterranean cyclones, fronts, and airstreams
Alice Portal, Shira Raveh-Rubin, Jennifer L. Catto, Yonatan Givon, and Olivia Martius
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1043–1060, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1043-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1043-2024, 2024 | 1,386 views
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02 Jul 2024
Deepening mechanisms of cut-off lows in the Southern Hemisphere and the role of jet streams: insights from eddy kinetic energy analysis
Henri Rossi Pinheiro, Kevin Ivan Hodges, and Manoel Alonso Gan
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 881–894, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-881-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-881-2024, 2024 | 1,383 views
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03 Jun 2025
Minimal influence of future Arctic sea ice loss on North Atlantic jet stream morphology
Yvonne Anderson, Jacob Perez, and Amanda C. Maycock
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 595–608, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-595-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-595-2025, 2025 | 1,378 views
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23 Sep 2024
Spatial and temporal variability of the freezing level in Patagonia's atmosphere
Nicolás García-Lee, Claudio Bravo, Álvaro Gónzalez-Reyes, and Piero Mardones
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1137–1151, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1137-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1137-2024, 2024 | 1,341 views
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19 Jul 2024
Towards a process-oriented understanding of the impact of stochastic perturbations on the model climate
Moritz Deinhard and Christian M. Grams
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 927–942, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-927-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-927-2024, 2024 | 1,322 views
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21 May 2025
Weather type reconstruction using machine learning approaches
Lucas Pfister, Lena Wilhelm, Yuri Brugnara, Noemi Imfeld, and Stefan Brönnimann
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 571–594, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-571-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-571-2025, 2025 | 1,319 views
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05 Nov 2024
The impact of preceding convection on the development of Medicane Ianos and the sensitivity to sea surface temperature
Claudio Sánchez, Suzanne Gray, Ambrogio Volonté, Florian Pantillon, Ségolène Berthou, and Silvio Davolio
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1429–1455, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1429-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1429-2024, 2024 | 1,314 views
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24 Jun 2025
An object-based and Lagrangian view on an intense hailstorm day in Switzerland as represented in COSMO-1E ensemble hindcast simulations
Killian P. Brennan, Michael Sprenger, André Walser, Marco Arpagaus, and Heini Wernli
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 645–668, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-645-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-645-2025, 2025 | 1,261 views
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23 Sep 2024
Using variable-resolution grids to model precipitation from atmospheric rivers around the Greenland ice sheet
Annelise Waling, Adam Herrington, Katharine Duderstadt, Jack Dibb, and Elizabeth Burakowski
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1117–1135, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1117-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1117-2024, 2024 | 1,246 views
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30 Sep 2024
A simple model linking radiative–convective instability, convective aggregation and large-scale dynamics
Matthew Davison and Peter Haynes
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1153–1185, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1153-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1153-2024, 2024 | 1,223 views
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06 Sep 2024
A storm-relative climatology of compound hazards in Mediterranean cyclones
Raphaël Rousseau-Rizzi, Shira Raveh-Rubin, Jennifer L. Catto, Alice Portal, Yonatan Givon, and Olivia Martius
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1079–1101, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1079-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1079-2024, 2024 | 1,216 views
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20 Dec 2024
Causal relationships and predictability of the summer East Atlantic teleconnection
Julianna Carvalho-Oliveira, Giorgia Di Capua, Leonard F. Borchert, Reik V. Donner, and Johanna Baehr
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1561–1578, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1561-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1561-2024, 2024 | 1,202 views
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15 Aug 2024
Influence of mid-latitude sea surface temperature fronts on the atmospheric water cycle and storm track activity
Fumiaki Ogawa and Thomas Spengler
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1031–1042, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1031-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1031-2024, 2024 | 1,190 views
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11 Apr 2025
An ERA5 climatology of synoptic-scale negative potential vorticity–jet interactions over the western North Atlantic
Alexander Lojko, Andrew C. Winters, Annika Oertel, Christiane Jablonowski, and Ashley E. Payne
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 387–411, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-387-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-387-2025, 2025 | 1,147 views
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20 Dec 2024
Detection and consequences of atmospheric deserts: insights from a case study
Fiona Fix, Georg Mayr, Achim Zeileis, Isabell Stucke, and Reto Stauffer
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1545–1560, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1545-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1545-2024, 2024 | 1,138 views
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18 Feb 2025
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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, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-211-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-211-2025, 2025 | 1,133 views
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18 Jun 2025
Extreme Mediterranean cyclones and associated variables in an atmosphere-only vs. an ocean-coupled regional model
Marco Chericoni, Giorgia Fosser, Emmanouil Flaounas, Gianmaria Sannino, and Alessandro Anav
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 627–643, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-627-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-627-2025, 2025 | 1,108 views
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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, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-521-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-521-2025, 2025 | 1,098 views
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04 Dec 2024
Concurrent Bering Sea and Labrador Sea ice melt extremes in March 2023: a confluence of meteorological events aligned with stratosphere–troposphere interactions
Thomas J. Ballinger, Kent Moore, Qinghua Ding, Amy H. Butler, James E. Overland, Richard L. Thoman, Ian Baxter, Zhe Li, and Edward Hanna
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1473–1488, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1473-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1473-2024, 2024 | 1,086 views
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14 Oct 2024
Spatio-temporal averaging of jets obscures the reinforcement of baroclinicity by latent heating
Henrik Auestad, Clemens Spensberger, Andrea Marcheggiani, Paulo Ceppi, Thomas Spengler, and Tim Woollings
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1269–1286, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1269-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1269-2024, 2024 | 1,083 views
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16 Apr 2025
On the movement of atmospheric blocking systems and the associated temperature responses
Jonna van Mourik, Hylke de Vries, and Michiel Baatsen
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 413–429, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-413-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-413-2025, 2025 | 1,079 views
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24 Oct 2024
Systematic evaluation of the predictability of different Mediterranean cyclone categories
Benjamin Doiteau, Florian Pantillon, Matthieu Plu, Laurent Descamps, and Thomas Rieutord
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1409–1427, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1409-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1409-2024, 2024 | 1,071 views
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24 Feb 2025
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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, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-231-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-231-2025, 2025 | 1,046 views
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09 Aug 2024
Tropical cyclone asymmetric eyewall evolution and intensification in a two-layer model
Ting-Yu Cha and Michael M. Bell
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1013–1029, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1013-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1013-2024, 2024 | 1,045 views
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22 Apr 2025
On the role of moist and dry processes in atmospheric blocking biases in the Euro-Atlantic region in CMIP6
Edgar Dolores-Tesillos, Olivia Martius, and Julian Quinting
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 471–487, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-471-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-471-2025, 2025 | 1,024 views
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29 Jan 2025
Two different perspectives on heatwaves within the Lagrangian framework
Amelie Mayer and Volkmar Wirth
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 131–150, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-131-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-131-2025, 2025 | 1,023 views
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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, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-489-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-489-2025, 2025 | 1,022 views
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07 Mar 2025
A climatological characterization of North Atlantic winter jet streaks and their extremes
Mona Bukenberger, Lena Fasnacht, Stefan Rüdisühli, and Sebastian Schemm
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 279–316, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-279-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-279-2025, 2025 | 1,020 views
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10 Sep 2024
The connection between North Atlantic storm track regimes and eastern Mediterranean cyclonic activity
Dor Sandler, Hadas Saaroni, Baruch Ziv, Talia Tamarin-Brodsky, and Nili Harnik
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1103–1116, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1103-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1103-2024, 2024 | 1,016 views
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07 Jan 2025
Simulating record-shattering cold winters of the beginning of the 21st century in France
Camille Cadiou and Pascal Yiou
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 1–15, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1-2025, 2025 | 1,011 views
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07 Oct 2024
Impact of stochastic physics on the representation of atmospheric blocking in EC-Earth3
Michele Filippucci, Simona Bordoni, and Paolo Davini
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1207–1222, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1207-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1207-2024, 2024 | 984 views
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12 Nov 2024
Dynamic and thermodynamic contribution to the October 2019 exceptional rainfall in western central Africa
Kevin Kenfack, Francesco Marra, Zéphirin Yepdo Djomou, Lucie Angennes Djiotang Tchotchou, Alain Tchio Tamoffo, and Derbetini Appolinaire Vondou
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1457–1472, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1457-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1457-2024, 2024 | 979 views
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25 Mar 2025
Quantifying the spread in sudden stratospheric warming wave forcing in CMIP6
Verónica Martínez-Andradas, Alvaro de la Cámara, Pablo Zurita-Gotor, François Lott, and Federico Serva
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 329–343, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-329-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-329-2025, 2025 | 975 views
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20 Mar 2025
Assessing the skill of high-impact weather forecasts in southern South America: a study on cut-off lows
Belén Choquehuanca, Alejandro Anibal Godoy, and Ramiro Ignacio Saurral
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 317–327, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-317-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-317-2025, 2025 | 974 views
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13 Feb 2025
Pacific Decadal Oscillation-driven interdecadal variability of snowfall over the Karakoram and the Western Himalayas
Priya Bharati, Pranab Deb, and Kieran Mark Rainwater Hunt
Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 197–210, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-197-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-197-2025, 2025 | 963 views
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17 Oct 2024
The impact of synoptic storm likelihood on European subseasonal forecast uncertainty and their modulation by the stratosphere
Philip Rupp, Jonas Spaeth, Hilla Afargan-Gerstman, Dominik Büeler, Michael Sprenger, and Thomas Birner
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1287–1298, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1287-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1287-2024, 2024 | 958 views
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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, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-549-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-549-2025, 2025 | 932 views
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