Hailstorms are dangerous and costly phenomena that are expected to change in response
to a warming climate. In this Review, we summarize current knowledge of climate change …

Air quality transcends all scales with in the atmosphere from the local to the global with
handovers and feedbacks at each scale interaction. Air quality has manifold effects on …

Long-term trends in the historical frequency of environments supportive of atmospheric
convection are unclear, and only partially follow the expectations of a warming climate. This …

Severe thunderstorms associated with large hail are among the most important perils in
several European regions. Due to the local-scale extent of hail-affected areas and a lack of …

As lightning-detection records lengthen and the efficiency of severe weather reporting
increases, more accurate climatologies of convective hazards can be constructed. In this …

Predicting extreme weather events in a short time period and their developing in localized
areas is a challenge. The nowcasting of severe and extreme weather events is an issue for …

Rainfall erosivity, considering rainfall amount and intensity, is an important parameter for soil
erosion risk assessment under future land use and climate change. Despite its importance …

Thirty-two different thunderstorm predictors, derived from rawinsonde observations, have
been evaluated specifically for the Netherlands. For each of the 32 thunderstorm predictors …

We show that the frequency of damaging convective weather events including lightning, hail
and severe wind gusts will likely increase over Europe until the end of this century. We apply …

The preconvective environment on days with ordinary, widespread, and severe
thunderstorms in Southwest Germany was investigated. Various thermodynamic and kinetic …