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 …

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] 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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Nowcasting extreme rain and extreme wind speed with machine learning techniques applied to different input datasets

S Chkeir, A Anesiadou, A Mascitelli, R Biondi - Atmospheric Research, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

A climatology of thunderstorms across Europe from a synthesis of multiple data sources

M Taszarek, J Allen, T Púčik, P Groenemeijer… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
The climatology of (severe) thunderstorm days is investigated on a pan-European scale for
the period of 1979–2017. For this purpose, sounding measurements, surface observations …

[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 …

Frequency of severe thunderstorms across Europe expected to increase in the 21st century due to rising instability

AT Rädler, PH Groenemeijer, E Faust… - npj Climate and …, 2019 - nature.com
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 …