Severe convective storms across Europe and the United States. Part I: Climatology of lightning, large hail, severe wind, and tornadoes

M Taszarek, JT Allen, P Groenemeijer… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
As lightning-detection records lengthen and the efficiency of severe weather reporting
increases, more accurate climatologies of convective hazards can be constructed. In this …

An overview of tornado and waterspout events in Catalonia (2000–2019)

O Rodríguez, J Bech, J Arús, S Castán, F Figuerola… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tornado climatologies are essential to enhance our knowledge about their frequency and
spatial distribution, together with their damage path characteristics. Due to their small …

Tornadic environments in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands based on ERA5 reanalysis

O Rodríguez, J Bech - International Journal of Climatology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A dataset of 907 tornado and waterspout events recorded from 1980 to 2018 was built to
study convective environments in the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands (western …

[PDF][PDF] An updated “climatology” of tornadoes and 5 waterspouts in Italy 6

MM Migliettaa, IT Matsangourasb - 2018 - researchgate.net
An updated “climatology” of tornadoes and waterspouts in Italy Page 1 1 2 3 4 An updated “climatology”
of tornadoes and 5 waterspouts in Italy 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Mario Marcello Migliettaa,*, Ioannis …

Sounding‐derived parameters associated with tornadic storms in Catalonia

O Rodríguez, J Bech - International Journal of Climatology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Catalonia, a southern Europe coastal region in the western Mediterranean basin, is
regularly affected by severe local storms which every year produce an average of 5 …

Multiple tornadoes in the Italian Ionian regions: Observations, sensitivity tests and mesoscale analysis of convective storm environmental parameters

E Avolio, MM Miglietta - Atmospheric Research, 2021 - Elsevier
In the months of November 2012, 2014 and 2018, four tornadic events affected southern
Italy (Calabria and Apulia regions). Tornado-spawning supercells hit the same regions, had …

Synoptic characteristics of an extreme weather event: The tornadic waterspout in Tivat (Montenegro), on June 9, 2018

J Mihajlović, D Burić, V Ducić, M Milenković - Geographia Polonica, 2021 - dais.sanu.ac.rs
Recently Montenegro has often been faced with extreme weather events. The aim of this
paper is to provide a detailed synoptic analysis of a severe weather event, a waterspout, and …

A multi-sensor and modeling analysis of a severe convective storm in Lake Maggiore area (northwestern Italy)

E Avolio, L Nisi, L Panziera, L Peyraud… - Atmospheric research, 2020 - Elsevier
The analysis of a severe convective storm, occurred in northwestern Italy during late summer
2012, is presented here. The event was characterized by heavy precipitation, hail and …

Impact of SST diurnal cycle on ENSO asymmetry

F Tian, JS Storch, E Hertwig - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
The dominant mode of inter-annual variability in the tropical Pacific is El Niño-Southern
Oscillation (ENSO). ENSO is not symmetric in the sense that El Niño is generally stronger …

Observational analysis of two waterspouts in northwestern Italy using an OPERA Doppler radar

MM Miglietta, K Arai, K Kusunoki, H Inoue, T Adachi… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - Elsevier
Data from a C-band dual-polarization Doppler radar are used to analyze the evolution of two
waterspouts in the Mediterranean Sea, observed in front of the coastal city of Sanremo …