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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-2331-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-2331-2024
Research article
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12 Jul 2024
Research article |  | 12 Jul 2024

Characterizing hail-prone environments using convection-permitting reanalysis and overshooting top detections over south-central Europe

Antonio Giordani, Michael Kunz, Kristopher M. Bedka, Heinz Jürgen Punge, Tiziana Paccagnella, Valentina Pavan, Ines M. L. Cerenzia, and Silvana Di Sabatino

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To improve the challenging representation of hazardous hailstorms, a proxy for hail frequency based on satellite detections, convective parameters from high-resolution reanalysis, and crowd-sourced reports is tested and presented. Hail likelihood peaks in mid-summer at 15:00 UTC over northern Italy and shows improved agreement with observations compared to previous estimates. By separating ambient signatures based on hail severity, enhanced appropriateness for large-hail occurrence is found.
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