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标题：Trends in United States large hail environments and observations
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作者：Brian H. Tang ; Vittorio A. Gensini ; Cameron R. Homeyer 等
期刊名称：npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
电子版ISSN：2397-3722
出版年度：2019
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：1-7
DOI：10.1038/s41612-019-0103-7
出版社：Nature Publishing Group
摘要：Understanding trends in large hail-producing environments is an important component of estimating hail risk. Here; we use two environmental parameters; the Large Hail Parameter and the Significant Hail Parameter; to assess trends in days with environments conducive for hail ≥5 cm. From 1979 to 2017; there has been an increase in days with favorable large hail environments in central and eastern portions of the U.S. This increase has been driven primarily by an increasing frequency of days with steep mid-tropospheric lapse rates and necessary combinations of instability and vertical wind shear for severe thunderstorms. Annual large hail environment area is significantly; positively correlated with (1) large hail report area east of the Rocky Mountains; and (2) large hail radar-derived area in the Midwest and Northeast. This evidence suggests that there may be an environmental fingerprint on increasing large hail risk and expanding this risk eastward.