How important are post‐tropical cyclones for European windstorm risk?

EM Sainsbury, RKH Schiemann… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Post‐tropical cyclones (PTCs) extend many hazards associated with tropical cyclones (TCs)
to the midlatitudes. Despite recent high‐impact cases affecting Europe such as Ophelia, little …

Large‐Scale Drivers of Persistent Extreme Weather During Early Summer 2021 in Europe

A Tuel, D Steinfeld, SM Ali, M Sprenger… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The early summer of 2021 was a season of extremes across Europe. Heatwaves, droughts
and wildfires hit Eastern Europe and the Baltic, while repeated extreme precipitation in …

The response of extratropical transition of tropical cyclones to climate change: Quasi-idealized numerical experiments

C Jung, GM Lackmann - Journal of Climate, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study uses small ensembles of convection-allowing, quasi-idealized simulations to
examine the response of North Atlantic tropical cyclones (TCs) undergoing extratropical …

Extreme precipitation events over northern Italy. Part II: Dynamical precursors

F Grazzini, G Fragkoulidis, F Teubler… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The connection between weather extremes and Rossby wave packets (RWP) has been
increasingly documented in recent years. RWP propagation and characteristics can …

The rare case of Hurricane Catarina (2004) over the South Atlantic Ocean: The origin of its precipitation through a Lagrangian approach

A Pérez‐Alarcón, P Coll‐Hidalgo… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical cyclones (TCs) are extremely rare over the South Atlantic Ocean (SATL) due to
predominantly unfavourable conditions, that is, cool sea‐surface temperature and strong …

The 1994 Piedmont flood: an archetype of extreme precipitation events in Northern Italy

F Grazzini, G Fragkoulidis, V Pavan… - Bulletin of Atmospheric …, 2020 - Springer
Extreme precipitation events (EPEs) are meteorological phenomena of major concern for the
densely populated regions of northern and central Italy. Although statistically rare, they tend …

Why do some post-tropical cyclones impact Europe?

EM Sainsbury, RKH Schiemann… - Monthly Weather …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Post-tropical cyclones (PTCs) can bring high winds and extreme precipitation to Europe.
Although the structure and intensity of observed Europe-impacting PTCs has been …

[HTML][HTML] Storm-scale dynamical changes of extratropical transition events in present-day and future high-resolution global simulations

AC Michaelis, GM Lackmann - Journal of Climate, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Tropical cyclones (TCs) propagating into baroclinic midlatitude environments can transform
into extratropical cyclones, in some cases resulting in high-impact weather conditions far …

Modulation of tropical cyclone tracks and rainfall by the North Atlantic Oscillation

E Mazza, SS Chen - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding and quantifying the large‐scale environmental control of spatio‐temporal
tropical cyclone (TC) variability beyond a few weeks remains a challenge with significant …

Convectively Generated Negative Potential Vorticity Enhancing the Jet Stream through an Inverse Energy Cascade during the Extratropical Transition of Hurricane …

KC Prince, C Evans - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
A tropical cyclone (TC) that recurves into the midlatitudes can lead to significant downstream
flow amplification by way of a favorable interaction with the midlatitude waveguide. Current …