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González Alemán, Juan Jesús

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Juan Jesús
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González Alemán
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/87048
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Ciencias Físicas
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Física de la Tierra y Astrofísica
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Física de la Tierra
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    Major role of marine heatwave and anthropogenic climate change on a giant hail event in Spain
    (Geophysical Research Letters, 2024) Martín, M.L.; Calvo-Sancho, Carlos; Taszarek, M.; González Alemán, Juan Jesús; Montoro-Mendoza, Ana; Díaz Fernández, Javier; Bolgiani, Pedro Mariano; Sastre Marugán, Mariano; Martín, Yago
    A severe hailstorm that occurred in Spain on 30 August 2022, caused material and human damage, including one fatality due to giant hailstones up to 12 cm in diameter. By applying a pseudo‐global warming approach, here we evaluate how a simultaneous marine heatwave (and anthropogenic climate change) affected a unique environment conductive to such giant hailstones. The main results show that the supercell development was influenced by an unprecedented amount of convective available energy, with significant contributions from thermodynamic factors. Numerical simulations where the marine heatwave is not present show a notable reduction in the hail‐favorable environments, related mainly to modifications in thermodynamic environment. Our simulations also indicate that the environment in a preindustrial‐like climate would be less favorable for convective hazards and thus the hailstorm event would likely not have been as severe as the observed one, being possible to perform a novel attribution of such kind.
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    Supercell convective environments in Spain based on ERA5: hail and non-hail differences
    (Weather and Climate Dynamics, 2022) Calvo Sancho, Carlos; Díaz Fernández, Javier; Martín, Yago; Bolgiani, Pedro Mariano; Sastre Marugán, Mariano; González Alemán, Juan Jesús; Santos Muñoz, Daniel; Farrán, José Ignacio; Martín, M.L.
    Severe convective storms, in particular supercells, are occasionally responsible for a large number of property losses and damage in Spain. This paper aims to study the synoptic configurations and pre-convective environments in a dataset of 262 supercells during 2011–2020 in Spain. The events are grouped into supercells with hail (diameter larger than 5 cm) and without hail and the results are compared. ERA5 reanalysis is used to study the synoptic configurations and proximity atmospheric profiles related to the supercell events at the initial time. In addition, temperature, convective available potential energy, convective inhibition, lifting condensation level, level of free convection, height of freezing level, wind shear and storm-relative helicity are obtained for each event. Results show that supercells are more frequent on the Mediterranean coast during the warm season. Some of the variables analyzed present statistically significant differences between hail and non-hail events. In particular, supercells with hail are characterized by higher median values of most-unstable convective available potential energy than supercells without hail.