Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11765/15737
Major Role of Marine Heatwave and Anthropogenic Climate Change on a Giant Hail Event in Spain
Title: Major Role of Marine Heatwave and Anthropogenic Climate Change on a Giant Hail Event in Spain
Authors: Martín, María LuisaCalvo Sancho, CarlosTaszarek, MateuszGonzález-Alemán, Juan JesúsMontoro Mendoza, AnaDíaz Fernández, JavierBolgiani, PedroSastre, MarianoMartín, Yago
Keywords: Severe hailstorm; Marine heat wave; Anthropogenic climate change; Giant hailstones
Issue Date: 2024
Publisher: Wiley Open Access; American Geophysical Union
Citation: Geophysical Research Letters. 2024, 51(6), e2023GL107632
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107632
Abstract: A severe hailstorm that occurred in Spain on 30 August 2022, caused material and human damage, including one fatality due to giant hailstones up to 12 cm in diameter. By applying a pseudo-global warming approach, here we evaluate how a simultaneous marine heatwave (and anthropogenic climate change) affected a unique environment conductive to such giant hailstones. The main results show that the supercell development was influenced by an unprecedented amount of convective available energy, with significant contributions from thermodynamic factors. Numerical simulations where the marine heatwave is not present show a notable reduction in the hail-favorable environments, related mainly to modifications in thermodynamic environment. Our simulations also indicate that the environment in a preindustrial-like climate would be less favorable for convective hazards and thus the hailstorm event would likely not have been as severe as the observed one, being possible to perform a novel attribution of such kind.
Sponsorship : This work was supported by the Spanish research project PID2019-105306RB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (IBERCANES) and by the grant from the Polish National Science Centre Grant (2020/39/D/ST10/00768). This work is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy under the research project PID2019-105306RB-I00 (IBERCANES).
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11765/15737
ISSN: 0094-8276
1944-8007
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