Articles | Volume 24, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-847-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-847-2024
Research article
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11 Mar 2024
Research article |  | 11 Mar 2024

An open-source radar-based hail damage model for buildings and cars

Timo Schmid, Raphael Portmann, Leonie Villiger, Katharina Schröer, and David N. Bresch

Model code and software

CLIMADA-project/climada_papers: Hail Damage Model (v4.0) S. Eberenz et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10563495

CLIMADA-project/climada_python: v4.3.1 G. Aznar-Siguan et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8308160

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Hailstorms cause severe damage to buildings and cars, which motivates a detailed risk assessment. Here, we present a new open-source hail damage model based on radar data in Switzerland. The model successfully estimates the correct order of magnitude of car and building damages for most large hail events over 20 years. However, large uncertainty remains in the geographical distribution of modelled damages, which can be improved for individual events by using crowdsourced hail reports.
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