On this page, you will find references and links to two categories of peer-reviewed articles.<\/p>\n
The names of ESSL employed authors are underlined<\/span>.<\/p>\n In reverse chronological order:<\/p>\n Groenemeijer, P.<\/span>, T. P\u00fa\u010dik<\/span>, F. Battaglioli<\/span>, I. Tsonevsky, M. Taszarek, 2026:\u00a0Medium-range forecasting of (very) large hail with a generalized additive model: Applying the AR-CHaMo Framework to ECMWF\u2019s 51-member ensemble. Accepted for Publication in Weather and Forecasting.<\/em><\/p>\n Taszarek, M., T. P\u00fa\u010dik<\/span>, J. T. Allen, C. Nixon, A. Dowdy, H. Bechis, Mannino, G.,\u00a0Battaglioli, F.<\/span>, & Tina, G. M., 2026:\u00a0Large hail impacts on photovoltaic systems: A review of damage, testing, and mitigation. Energy Reports<\/em>, 15.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.egyr.2026.109056<\/a><\/p>\n Battaglioli, F.<\/span>, Taszarek, M., Groenemeijer, P.,\u00a0P\u00fa\u010dik, T.<\/span>, & R\u00e4dler, A., 2026: Contrasting trends in very large hail events and related economic losses across the globe. Nature Geoscience<\/i>, 1-7.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41561-025-01868-0<\/a><\/p>\n Beyer, Marcus, Kathrin Wapler, and Thilo\u00a0K\u00fchne<\/span>, 2025:\u00a0Tornadoes in Germany: intensity, temporal and spatial distribution.\u00a0Meteorologische Zeitschrift.\u00a0<\/em>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1127\/metz\/1276<\/a><\/p>\n Ksenija Cindri\u0107 Kalin, Irena Nimac, Leonardo Patalen, Tanja Renko<\/span>, Petra Miku\u0161 Jurkovi\u0107 & Zoran Pasari\u0107,\u00a02025:<\/i>\u00a0Sub-daily rainfall extremes in Croatia: a basis for improved warning thresholds.\u00a0Theor Appl Climatol<\/i>\u00a0156<\/b>, 570.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00704-025-05809-0<\/a><\/p>\n Jannick Fischer, Pieter Groenemeijer<\/span>, Alois Holzer<\/span>, Monika Feldmann, Katharina Schr\u00f6er, Francesco Battaglioli<\/span>, Lisa Schielicke, Tom\u00e1\u0161 P\u00fa\u010dik<\/span>, Bogdan Antonescu<\/span>, Christoph Gatzen, and TIM Partners: Portal, Alice, Andrea Angelidou, Raphael Rousseau-Rizzi, Shira Raveh-Rubin, Yonatan Givon, Jennifer L. Catto, Francesco Battaglioli<\/span>, Mateusz Taszarek, Emmanouil Flaounas, Olivia Martius, 2025: Convective Environments Within Mediterranean Cyclones, Atmospheric Science Letters<\/em>,\u00a026. Khodayar, S., J. Kushta, J.L. Catto, S. Dafis, S. Davolio, C. Ferrarin, E Flaounas, P. Groenemeijer<\/span>, M. Hatzaki, A. Hochman, V. Kotroni, J. Landa, I. Lang-Ritter, G. Lazoglou, M. L. R. Liberato, M. M. Miglietta, K. Papagiannaki, P. Patlakas, R. Stojanov, G. Zittis, 2025: Mediterranean cyclones in a changing climate: a review on their socio-economic impacts, Reviews of Geophysics<\/em>, 63<\/strong>. K\u00fchne, Thilo<\/span>, Bogdan Antonescu<\/span>, Pieter Groenemeijer<\/span>, and Tom\u00e1\u0161 P\u00fa\u010dik<\/span>, 2025: Lightning Fatalities in Europe (2001\u20132020)\u00a0Lightning Fatalities in Europe (2001\u20132020),\u00a0Wea. Climate Soc.<\/i>, 17<\/strong>, 205\u2013215. P\u00fa\u010dik, Tom\u00e1s<\/span>, David R\u00fdva, Miloslav Stan\u011bk, Miroslav \u0160inger, Pieter Groenemeijer<\/span>, Georg Pistotnik, Rainer Kaltenberger, Milo\u0161 Zich, Jan Kol\u00e1\u010dek, and Alois Holzer<\/span>, 2024: The violent tornado on 24 June 2021 in Czechia: damage survey, societal impacts and lessons learned. Wea. Climate Soc.<\/i>, 16<\/strong>, 411-429. Homa Ghasemifard<\/span>, Pieter Groenemeijer<\/span>,\u00a0Tom\u00e1\u0161 P\u00fa\u010dik<\/span> and Francesco Battaglioli<\/span>, 2024: Do changing circulation types raise the frequency of summertime thunderstorms and large hail in Europe? Env. Research: Climate, <\/em>3<\/strong>,\u00a0015008. <\/em> Battaglioli, F.<\/span>, P. Groenemeijer<\/span>, T. P\u00fa\u010dik<\/span>, M. Taszarek, U. Ulbrich, and H. Rust, 2023: Modelled multidecadal trends of lightning and (very) large hail in Europe and North America (1950\u20132021). J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol.<\/em>, 62<\/strong>, 1627\u20131653. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/JAMC-D-22-0195.1<\/a><\/p>\n Battaglioli, F.<\/span>, Groenemeijer, P.<\/span>, Tsonevsky, I.<\/span>, and P\u00fa\u010dik, T., 2023<\/span>: Forecasting Large Hail and Lightning using Additive Logistic Regression Models and the ECMWF Reforecasts, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.<\/em>, Pilorz, W., Laskowski, I.<\/u>, Surowiecki, A., & \u0141upikasza, E., 2023. Gonz\u00e1lez-Alem\u00e1n, J. J., Insua-Costa, D., Bazile, E., Gonz\u00e1lez-Herrero, S., Marcello Miglietta, M., Groenemeijer, P., & Donat, M. G., 2023: Anthropogenic Warming Had a Crucial Role in Triggering the Historic and Destructive Mediterranean Derecho in Summer 2022. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society<\/em>, 104(8), E1526\u2013E1532. Nimac, I., Cindri\u0107 Kalin, K., Renko, T.<\/span>, Vujnovi\u0107, T., and Horvath, K., 2022: Ganachaud, A., Karina von Schuckmann, Andra Whiteside, Cecile Dupouy, Pierre-Yves Le Meur, Maeva Monier, Simon van Wynsberge et al., 2022: Taszarek, M., J. T. Allen, P. Groenemeijer<\/span>, R. Edwards, H. E. Brooks, V. Chmielewski, and S. Enno, Severe convective storms across Europe and the United States. Part 1: Climatology of lightning, large hail, severe wind and tornadoes. J. Climate.<\/em> Taszarek, M., J. T. Allen, T. P\u00fa\u010dik<\/span>, K. A. Hoogewind, and H. E. Brooks, Severe convective storms across Europe and the United States. Part 2: ERA5 environments associated with lightning, large hail, severe wind and tornadoes. J. Climate<\/em>, in press<\/em>. Chernokulsky, Alexander, Michael Kurgansky, Igor Mokhov, Andrei Shikhov, Igor Azhigov, Evgeniya Selezneva, Denis Zakharchenko, Bogdan Antonescu,<\/span> and\u00a0Thilo K\u00fchne<\/span>, 2020: Tornadoes in Northern Eurasia: From the Middle Age to the Information Era. Monthly Weather Review<\/em>, 148<\/strong>, 3081\u20133110. Br\u00e1zdil, Rudolf, Kate\u0159ina Chrom\u00e1, Tom\u00e1\u0161 P\u00fa\u010dik<\/span>, Zbyn\u011bk \u010cernoch,Petr Dobrovoln\u00fd, Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dol\u00e1k, Old\u0159ich Kotyza, Ladislava \u0158ezn\u00ed\u010dkov\u00e1 and Mateusz Taszarek, 2020: The Climatology of Significant Tornadoes in the Czech Republic.\u00a0Atmosphere,<\/em>\u00a011<\/strong>, 689. Antonescu, B.<\/span>, T. P\u00fa\u010dik<\/span>, and D. M.Schultz, 2020. Hindcasting the First Tornado Forecast in Europe: 25 June 1967. Weather and Forecasting<\/em>, 35<\/strong>, 417\u2013436. Allen, John, T., Ian M. Giammanco, Matthew R. Kumjian, Heinz Jurgen Punge, Qinghong Zhang, Pieter Groenemeijer<\/span>, Michael Kunz, Kiel Ortega, 2019; Understanding Hail in the Earth System, accepted in\u00a0Reviews of Geophysics. <\/em> Brooks, H.E., A. Chernokulsky, E. Tochimoto, B. Hanstrum, E. de Lima Nascimento, D.M. Sills, B. Antonescu<\/span>, and B. Barrett, 2019: Antonescu, B.<\/span>, D.M. Schultz, H.M. Ricketts, and D. Ene, 2019: Theories on Tornado and Waterspout Formation in Ancient Greece and Rome. Wea. Climate Soc.<\/em>, 11<\/strong>, 889\u2013900. Tom\u00e1\u0161 P\u00fa\u010dik<\/span>, Christopher Castellano<\/span>, Pieter Groenemeijer<\/span>, Thilo K\u00fchne<\/span>, Anja T. R\u00e4dler<\/span>, Bogdan Antonescu<\/span>, and Eberhard Faust, 2019: Large hail incidence and its economic and societal impacts across Europe, Monthly Weather Review<\/em>,\u00a0147<\/strong>, 3901\u20133916. Anja T. R\u00e4dler<\/span>, P.H. Groenemeijer<\/span>, E. Faust, R. Sausen and T. P\u00fa\u010dik<\/span>, 2019: Frequency of severe thunderstorms across Europe expected to increase in the 21st century due to rising instability, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science,\u00a0<\/em>2<\/strong>, 30. Mateusz Taszarek, John T. Allen,\u00a0Tom\u00e1\u0161 P\u00fa\u010dik,<\/span> Pieter Groenemeijer<\/span>, Bartosz Czernecki, Leszek Kolendowicz, Kostas Lagouvardos, Vasiliki Kotroni and Wolfgang Schulz, 2019:\u00a0A climatology of thunderstorms across Europe from a synthesis of multiple data sources. Journal of Climate<\/em>,\u00a032<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>1813\u2013<\/span>1837. Bogdan Antonescu<\/span>, and F. C\u0103rbunaru, 2018: Lightning-Related Fatalities in Romania from 1999 to 2015. Bogdan Antonescu<\/span>, Jonathan G. Fairman Jr., and David M. Schultz, 2018: What’s the Worst That Could Happen? Re-examining the 24\u201325 June 1967 Tornado Outbreak Over Western Europe Anja R\u00e4dler, Pieter Groenemeijer<\/span>, Eberhard Faust and Robert Sausen, 2018: Alois M. Holzer<\/span>, Thomas M. E. Schreiner<\/span>, and Tom\u00e1\u0161 P\u00fa\u010dik<\/span>, 2018: Tom\u00e1\u0161 P\u00fa\u010dik<\/span>, Pieter Groenemeijer<\/span>, Anja T. R\u00e4dler<\/span>, Lars Tijssen<\/span>, Grigory Nikulin, Andreas F. Prein, Erik van Meijgaard, Rowan Fealy, Daniela Jacob, and Claas Teichmann, 2017: Pieter Groenemeijer<\/span>, Tom\u00e1\u0161 P\u00fa\u010dik<\/span>, Alois M. Holzer<\/span>, Bogdan Antonescu<\/span>, Kathrin Riemann-Campe<\/span>, David M. Schultz, Thilo K\u00fchne<\/span>, Bernold Feuerstein, Harold E. Brooks, Charles A. Doswell III, Hans-Joachim Koppert, and Robert Sausen, 2017: Bogdan Antonescu, David M. Schultz, Alois M. Holzer<\/span>, Pieter Groenemeijer<\/span>, 2017: Wapler, Kathrin, Thomas Hengstebeck and Pieter Groenemeijer<\/span>, 2016: Antonescu, Bogdan, David M. Schultz,\u00a0Fiona Lomas and Thilo K\u00fchne<\/span>,\u00a02016: Pistotnik, Georg<\/span>, Pieter Groenemeijer<\/span> and Robert Sausen, 2016: Westermayer, Anja<\/span>,\u00a0Pieter Groenemeijer<\/span>,\u00a0Georg Pistotnik<\/span>,\u00a0Robert Sausen,\u00a0Eberhard Faust, 2016: P\u00fa\u010dik, Tom\u00e1\u0161<\/span>, Pieter Groenemeijer<\/span>, David R\u00fdva, and Miroslav Kol\u00e1\u0159, 2015:Peer-reviewed ESSL publications<\/h2>\n
2026<\/h3>\n
\nJ. M. Peters, P. Groenemeijer<\/span>, B. Ribeiro, F. Battaglioli<\/span>, H. E. Brooks, 2026: What do large hail, tornado, and severe thunderstorm wind environments have in common across continents? Accepted for publication in the\u00a0Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society<\/em>.<\/p>\n2025<\/h3>\n
\nInvited perspectives: Thunderstorm intensification from mountains to plains. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences<\/em>, 25<\/strong>, 2629-2656.
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/nhess-25-2629-2025<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/asl.1302<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2024RG000853<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/WCAS-D-24-0038.1<\/a>.<\/p>\n2024<\/h3>\n
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/WCAS-D-23-0080.1<\/a>, .<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/2752-5295\/ad22ec<\/a><\/p>\n2023<\/h3>\n
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/nhess-2023-40<\/a><\/p>\n
\nFatalities related to sudden meteorological events across Central Europe from 2010 to 2020. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction<\/em>, 88<\/strong>, 103622,
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijdrr.2023.103622<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/BAMS-D-23-0119.1<\/a><\/p>\n2022<\/h3>\n
\nThe analysis of summer 2020 urban flood in Zagreb (Croatia) from hydro-meteorological point of view. Nat Hazards 112, 873\u2013897. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11069-022-05210-4<\/a><\/p>\n
\nCopernicus Ocean state report, issue 6, Journal of Operational Oceanography 15, no. 1 (2022): 1-220. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1755876X.2022.2095169<\/a>
\n(ESSL co-author: Pieter Groenemeijer)<\/p>\n2020<\/h3>\n
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/JCLI-D-20-0345.1<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/JCLI-D-20-0346.1<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/MWR-D-19-0251.1<\/a><\/p>\n
\n https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/atmos11070689<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/WAF-D-19-0173.1<\/a><\/p>\n2019<\/h3>\n
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2019RG000665<\/a>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n
\nA century of progress in severe convective storm research and forecasting. Meteorological Monographs<\/em>.
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/AMSMONOGRAPHS-D-18-0026.1<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/WCAS-D-19-0057.1<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/MWR-D-19-0204.1<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41612-019-0083-7<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/ 10.1175\/JCLI-D-18-0372.1<\/a><\/p>\n2018<\/h3>\n
\nWeather, Climate, and Society<\/em>, 10<\/strong>, 241\u2013252.
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/WCAS-D-17-0091.1 <\/a><\/p>\n
\nWeather, Climate, and Society, <\/em>10, <\/strong>323\u2013<\/span>340.\u00a0<\/em>doi:10.1175\/WCAS-D-17-0076.1
\n<\/em>http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1175\/WCAS-D-17-0076.1<\/a><\/p>\n
\nDetecting severe weather trends using an Additive Regressive Convective Hazard Model (AR-CHaMo)
\nJournal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, <\/em>57,\u00a0<\/strong>569\u2013587.<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>doi: 10.1175\/<\/span>JAMC-D-17-0132.1
\nhttp:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1175\/JAMC-D-17-0132.1<\/a><\/p>\n
\nA forensic re-analysis of one of the deadliest European tornadoes
\nNat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.<\/em>, 18<\/strong>, 1555-1565.
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/nhess-18-1555-2018<\/a><\/p>\n2017<\/h3>\n
\nFuture Changes in European Severe Convection Environments in a Regional Climate Model Ensemble
\nJournal of Climate, <\/em>30<\/strong>, \u00a06771\u20136794.
\nhttp:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1175\/JCLI-D-16-0777.1<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSevere Convective Storms in Europe: 10 Years of Research at the European Severe Storms Laboratory,\u00a0Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.,<\/span><\/i>\u00a098<\/span><\/b>,\u00a02641\u20132651.<\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1175\/BAMS-D-16-0067.1<\/a><\/p>\n
\nTornadoes in Europe: An underestimated threat
\nBulletin of the American Meteorological Society<\/em>, 98<\/strong>, 713\u2013728.
\nhttp:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1175\/BAMS-D-16-0171.1<\/a><\/p>\n2016<\/h3>\n
\nMesocyclones in Central Europe as seen by radar
\nAtmospheric Research<\/em>, 168<\/strong>, 112\u2013120.
\nhttp:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.atmosres.2015.08.023<\/a><\/p>\n
\nTornadoes in Europe: Synthesis of Observational Datasets.
\nMonthly Weather Review<\/em>, 144<\/span><\/b>, 2445\u20132480, <\/span>doi: 10.1175\/MWR-D-15-0298.1.
\n<\/span>http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1175\/MWR-D-15-0298.1<\/a><\/p>\n
\nValidation of Convective Parameters in MPI-ESM Decadal Hindcasts (1971\u20132012) against ERA-Interim Reanalyses
\nMeteorologische Zeitschrift, <\/em>25<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>753\u2013766,\u00a0doi: 10.1127\/metz\/2016\/0649.
\nhttp:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1127\/metz\/2016\/0649<\/a><\/p>\n
\nIdentification of thunderstorms in reanalysis data,
\nMeteorologische Zeitschrift<\/em>, 26<\/strong>,\u00a059\u201370,\u00a0doi: 10.1127\/metz\/2016\/0754.
\nhttp:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1127\/metz\/2016\/0754<\/a><\/p>\n2015<\/h3>\n