Supercell convective environments in Spain based on ERA5: hail and non-hail differences

Calvo-Sancho, Carlos; Díaz-Fernández, Javier; Martín, Yago; Bolgiani, Pedro; Sastre, Mariano; González-Alemán, Juan Jesús; Santos-Muñoz, Daniel; Farrán, José Ignacio; Martín, María Luisa

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-1021-2022

Articles | Volume 3, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-1021-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-1021-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 3, issue 3

Research article

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05 Sep 2022

Research article |

| 05 Sep 2022

Supercell convective environments in Spain based on ERA5: hail and non-hail differences

Carlos Calvo-Sancho, Javier Díaz-Fernández, Yago Martín, Pedro Bolgiani, Mariano Sastre, Juan Jesús González-Alemán, Daniel Santos-Muñoz, José Ignacio Farrán, and María Luisa Martín

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-1021-2022-supplement

Data sets

ERA5 hourly data on pressure levels from 1959 to present H. Hersbach, B. Bell, P. Berrisford, G. Biavati, A. Horányi, J. Muñoz Sabater, J. Nicolas, C. Peubey, R. Radu, I. Rozum, D. Schepers, A. Simmons, C. Soci, D. Dee, and J.-N. Thépaut https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.bd0915c6

Short summary

Supercells are among the most complex and dangerous severe convective storms due to their associated phenomena (lightning, strong winds, large hail, flash floods, or tornadoes). In this survey we study the supercell synoptic configurations and convective environments in Spain using the atmospheric reanalysis ERA5. Supercells are grouped into hail (greater than 5 cm) and non-hail events in order to compare and analyze the two events. The results reveal statistically significant differences.