Anthropogenic Influences on Tornadic Storms
Anthropogenic Influences on Tornadic Storms
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人为对龙卷风暴的影响
DOI:
10.1175/jcli-d-20-0901.1
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
W. Gallus
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作者:
E. Bercos‐Hickey;C. Patricola;W. Gallus
The impact of climate change on severe storms and tornadoes remains uncertain, largely owing to inconsistencies in observational data and limitations of climate models. We performed ensembles of convection-permitting climate model simulations to examine how three tornadic storms would change if similar events were to occur in pre-industrial and future climates. The choice of events includes winter, nocturnal, and spring tornadic storms to provide insight into how the timing and seasonality of storms may affect their response to climate change. Updraft helicity (UH), convective available potential energy (CAPE), storm relative helicity (SRH), and convective inhibition (CIN) were used to determine the favorability for the three tornadic storm events in the different climate states. We found that from the pre-industrial to present, the potential for tornadic storms decreased in the winter event and increased in the nocturnal and spring events. With future climate change, the potential for tornadic storms increased in the winter and nocturnal events in association with increased CAPE, and decreased in the spring event despite greater CAPE.