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: Nouri, Niloufar, Devineni, Naresh, Were, Valerie, Khanbilvardi, Reza
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Arctic; Pacific; Soi; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1816774; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1816774; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81143-5

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 better detect...