Explaining the trends and variability in the United States tornado records using climate teleconnections and shifts in observational practices

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Niloufar Nouri, Naresh Devineni, Valerie Were, Reza Khanbilvardi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Arctic; Pacific; Soi; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81143-5; https://doaj.org/article/f0ae163f801c4af8a9926a31b9011bce

Abstract The annual frequency of tornadoes during 1950–2018 across the major tornado-impacted states were examined and modeled using anthropogenic and large-scale climate covariates in a hierarchical Bayesian inference framework. Anthropogenic factors include increases in population density and bett...