The effects of climate change on hailstorms

TH Raupach, O Martius, JT Allen, M Kunz… - Nature reviews earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

Increasing cryospheric hazards in a warming climate

Y Ding, C Mu, T Wu, G Hu, D Zou, D Wang, W Li… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The cryosphere is an important component of the global climate system. Cryospheric
components are sensitive to climate warming, and changes in the cryosphere can lead to …

[HTML][HTML] Interpretable deep learning for spatial analysis of severe hailstorms

DJ Gagne II, SE Haupt, DW Nychka… - Monthly Weather …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abadi, M., and Coauthors, 2016: Tensorflow: A system for large-scale machine learning.
Proc. 12th USENIX Symp. on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'16) …

Challenges and benchmark datasets for machine learning in the atmospheric sciences: Definition, status, and outlook

PD Dueben, MG Schultz, M Chantry… - … Intelligence for the …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Benchmark datasets and benchmark problems have been a key aspect for the success of
modern machine learning applications in many scientific domains. Consequently, an active …

Why we need to focus on developing ethical, responsible, and trustworthy artificial intelligence approaches for environmental science

A McGovern, I Ebert-Uphoff, DJ Gagne… - Environmental Data …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Given the growing use of Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) methods
across all aspects of environmental sciences, it is imperative that we initiate a discussion …

Differing trends in United States and European severe thunderstorm environments in a warming climate

M Taszarek, JT Allen, HE Brooks… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
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 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 …

Understanding hail in the earth system

JT Allen, IM Giammanco, MR Kumjian… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The processes leading to the development of hail and the distribution of these events
worldwide are reviewed. Microphysical and physical characteristics of hail development are …

[HTML][HTML] Large hail incidence and its economic and societal impacts across Europe

T Púčik, C Castellano, P Groenemeijer… - Monthly Weather …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract By 31 December 2018, 39 537 quality-controlled reports of large hail had been
submitted to the European Severe Weather Database (ESWD) by volunteers and ESSL. This …

Global estimates of damaging hail hazard

AF Prein, GJ Holland - Weather and Climate Extremes, 2018 - Elsevier
A single hailstorm can cause losses in the billion-dollar range if it occurs over a densely
populated area. Property losses from hailstorms are rising with time mainly due to a …