Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 24, issue 4
Articles | Volume 24, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-1079-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-1079-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 24, issue 4
Research article
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03 Apr 2024
Research article |  | 03 Apr 2024

Climatology of large hail in Europe: characteristics of the European Severe Weather Database

Faye Hulton and David M. Schultz

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Large hail devastates crops and property and can injure and kill people and livestock. Hail reports are collected by individual countries, so understanding where and when large hail occurs across Europe is an incomplete undertaking. We use the European Severe Weather Database to evaluate the quality of reports by year and by country since 2000. Despite its short record, the dataset appears to represent aspects of European large-hail climatology reliably.
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