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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1867-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1867-2020
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Research article
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01 Jul 2020
Research article |
| 01 Jul 2020
| 01 Jul 2020
Ambient conditions prevailing during hail events in central Europe
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Jan Wandel
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Elody Fluck
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
now at: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Sven Baumstark
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
now at: Heine + Jud, Stuttgart, Germany
Susanna Mohr
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Sebastian Schemm
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Short summary
Severe convective storms are major loss drivers across Europe. We reconstructed several thousand storm tracks from radar reflectivity over a 10-year period for parts of Europe. The tracks were additionally combined with hail reports, reanalysis data, and front detections based on ERA-Interim (ECMWF Reanalysis). It is found that frontal hailstorms on average produce larger hailstones and have longer tracks and that wind shear is important not only for the hail diameter but also for track length.
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