[HTML][HTML] Mediterranean cyclones: Current knowledge and open questions on dynamics, prediction, climatology and impacts

E Flaounas, S Davolio, S Raveh-Rubin… - Weather and Climate …, 2022 - wcd.copernicus.org
A large number of intense cyclones occur every year in the Mediterranean basin, one of the
climate change hotspots. Producing a broad range of severe socio-economic and …

State of the climate in 2015

J Blunden, DS Arndt - Bulletin of the American Meteorological …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2015 Page 1 Special Supplement to the Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society Vol. 97, No. 8, August 2016 STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2015 Brought …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamical forcings in heavy precipitation events over Italy: lessons from the HyMeX SOP1 campaign

MM Miglietta, S Davolio - Hydrology and Earth System …, 2022 - hess.copernicus.org
Abstract The first Special Observation Period (SOP1) of HyMeX (Hydrological cycle in the
Mediterranean eXperiment) was held in fall 2012 and focused on heavy precipitation events …

Development mechanisms for Mediterranean tropical‐like cyclones (medicanes)

MM Miglietta, R Rotunno - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Midlatitude cyclones with characteristics similar to tropical cyclones (also known as Tropical‐
Like Cyclones, TLCs, or medicanes) are sometimes observed in the Mediterranean region …

Potential increase in hazard from Mediterranean hurricane activity with global warming

JJ González‐Alemán, S Pascale… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mediterranean hurricanes (Medicanes) are intense cyclones that acquire tropical
characteristics, associated with extreme winds and rainfall, thus posing a serious natural …

A long-term climatology of medicanes

L Cavicchia, H von Storch, S Gualdi - Climate dynamics, 2014 - Springer
Medicanes, intense and destructive mesoscale cyclones exhibiting several similarities with
tropical hurricanes, are known to struck occasionally the Mediterranean Sea. Thanks to a …

Analysis of tropical‐like cyclones over the Mediterranean Sea through a combined modeling and satellite approach

MM Miglietta, S Laviola, A Malvaldi… - Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Several Mediterranean vortices with characteristics similar to tropical cyclones are analyzed
by means of numerical simulations, satellite products and lightning data. Numerical analysis …

Numerical analysis of a Mediterranean 'hurricane'over south-eastern Italy: Sensitivity experiments to sea surface temperature

MM Miglietta, A Moscatello, D Conte, G Mannarini… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - Elsevier
An unusually intense subsynoptic-scale cyclone has been documented in southeastern Italy
on 26 September 2006. Numerical simulations are performed with the Weather Research …

Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones: Impacts and composite daily means and anomalies of synoptic patterns

PT Nastos, KK Papadimou, IT Matsangouras - Atmospheric Research, 2018 - Elsevier
In the Mediterranean region, a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by gale winds,
severe precipitation, and low pressure center, accompanied with a spiral pattern of …

The crucial representation of deep convection for the cyclogenesis of Medicane Ianos

F Pantillon, S Davolio, E Avolio… - Weather and Climate …, 2024 - wcd.copernicus.org
This paper presents a model intercomparison study to improve the prediction and
understanding of Mediterranean cyclone dynamics. It is based on a collective effort with five …