Are meteorological conditions favoring hail precipitation change in Southern Europe_ Analysis of the period 1948–2015.pdfVIP

Atmospheric Research 198 (2017) 1–10 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Atmospheric Research journal homepage: /locate/atmosres Are meteorological conditions favoring hail precipitation change in MARK Southern Europe? Analysis of the period 1948–2015 a a,⁎ a a b c J.L. Sanchez , A. Merino , P. Melcón , E. García-Ortega , S. Fernández-González , C. Berthet , J. Dessensc a GFA, IMA, University of León, Spain, b Department of Astrophysics and Atmospheric Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain c ANELFA, Toulouse, France A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Keywords: In the context of a warming climate, one of the variables currently under investigation is related to the detection Hailfalls of possible changes in hail precipitation. In this work, we analyze hail frequencies in one of the most affected Synoptic environments areas by this phenomenon in Europe, southern France. Here, an extensive hail detection network has been in Trends operation since 1988. Southern Europe In general, the detection of hailfall is very uncertain. To overcome the constraints of scarcity and poor