Climate and hazardous convective weather

MK Tippett, JT Allen, VA Gensini, HE Brooks - Current Climate Change …, 2015 - Springer
Substantial progress has been made recently relating the large-scale climate system and
hazardous convective weather (HCW; tornadoes, hail, and damaging wind), particularly over …

[HTML][HTML] Severe convective storms across Europe and the United States. Part II: ERA5 environments associated with lightning, large hail, severe wind, and tornadoes

M Taszarek, JT Allen, T Púčik… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Severe Convective Storms across Europe and the United States. Part II: ERA5
Environments Associated with Lightning, Large Hail, Severe Wind, and Tornadoes in …

Comparison of convective parameters derived from ERA5 and MERRA-2 with rawinsonde data over Europe and North America

M Taszarek, N Pilguj, JT Allen, V Gensini… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
In this study we compared 3.7 million rawinsonde observations from 232 stations over
Europe and North America with proximal vertical profiles from ERA5 and MERRA-2 to …

Future global convective environments in CMIP6 models

C Lepore, R Abernathey, N Henderson, JT Allen… - Earth's …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The response of severe convective storms to a warming climate is poorly understood outside
of a few well studied regions. Here, projections from seven global climate models from the …

Spatial trends in United States tornado frequency

VA Gensini, HE Brooks - NPJ climate and atmospheric science, 2018 - nature.com
Severe thunderstorms accompanied by tornadoes, hail, and damaging winds cause an
average of 5.4 billion dollars of damage each year across the United States, and 10 billion …

Testing the performance of tropical cyclone genesis indices in future climates using the HiRAM model

SJ Camargo, MK Tippett, AH Sobel… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Tropical cyclone genesis indices (TCGIs) are functions of the large-scale environment that
are designed to be proxies for the probability of tropical cyclone (TC) genesis. While the …

Influence of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation on tornado and hail frequency in the United States

JT Allen, MK Tippett, AH Sobel - Nature Geoscience, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract The El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is characterized by changes in sea
surface temperature (SST) and atmospheric convection in the tropical Pacific, and …

Modeled Multidecadal Trends of Lightning and (Very) Large Hail in Europe and North America (1950–2021)

F Battaglioli, P Groenemeijer, T Púčik… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
We have developed additive logistic models for the occurrence of lightning, large hail (≥ 2
cm), and very large hail (≥ 5 cm) to investigate the evolution of these hazards in the past, in …

Climate change and severe thunderstorms

JT Allen - Oxford research encyclopedia of climate science, 2018 - oxfordre.com
The response of severe thunderstorms to a changing climate is a rapidly growing area of
research. Severe thunderstorms are one of the largest contributors to global losses in …

An empirical model relating US monthly hail occurrence to large‐scale meteorological environment

JT Allen, MK Tippett, AH Sobel - Journal of Advances in …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
An empirical model relating monthly hail occurrence to the large‐scale environment has
been developed and tested for the United States (US). Monthly hail occurrence for each grid …