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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-1079-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-1079-2024
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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