Tornado Activities in a Changing Climate
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Meteorology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 1258
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate trend and variability of tornado activity; variational computation of boundary layer flux; precipitation; cyclone–cyclone interactions; diagnoses of missed and false-alarmed high-impact events; atmospheric modeling; coupled atmospheric–hydrological processes
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Interests: mesoscale meteorology; radar meteorology; nowcasting; NWP model data assimilation and verification
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Tornadoes are one of the most destructive weather phenomena on Earth, and their activities have significant impacts on society in terms of loss of life and property damages, especially under a changing climate. Very often when severe tornado events occur, the public and media often raise numerous questions related to tornadoes and their relationship with climate change. Besides, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has drawn its attention to these questions, such as how localized severe weather activities (e.g., tornadoes) are altered under a changing climate, even though it is challenging to identify the influences of climate warming on tornado activity. In this Special Issue, we are helping to answer some unresolved scientific questions of concern to the IPCC and the public. Topics in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Trend analysis of tornado activity;
- Variability of tornado occurrence frequency;
- Case studies of extreme tornado events and outbreaks;
- Recent tornado observation technologies with high spatial and temporal resolutions;
- Recent laboratory experiments on tornado structure and evolution;
- Numerical simulations of high-impact tornado episodes;
- Analytic investigation of tornadogenesis;
- Diagnosis of tornado formation, maintenance, and disappearance;
- Relationship between tornado trend, variability, extreme events, and changing climates;
- Tornado activities associated with large-scale environments in a changing climate;
- Teleconnection and tornado activities;
- Tornado forecasting techniques in various scales.
Dr. Zuohao Cao
Dr. Huaqing Cai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tornado
- trend analysis
- variability
- case study
- observational technology
- laboratory experiment
- numerical simulation
- analytic method
- diagnosis
- large-scale environment and changing climates
- teleconnection
- forecast technique
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