Hail observations and hailstorm characteristics in Europe: A review

HJ Punge, M Kunz - Atmospheric Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Severe thunderstorms associated with large hail are among the most important perils in
several European regions. Due to the local-scale extent of hail-affected areas and a lack of …

Understanding hail in the earth system

JT Allen, IM Giammanco, MR Kumjian… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The processes leading to the development of hail and the distribution of these events
worldwide are reviewed. Microphysical and physical characteristics of hail development are …

[HTML][HTML] Interpretable deep learning for spatial analysis of severe hailstorms

DJ Gagne II, SE Haupt, DW Nychka… - Monthly Weather …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abadi, M., and Coauthors, 2016: Tensorflow: A system for large-scale machine learning.
Proc. 12th USENIX Symp. on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'16) …

Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) severe weather and aviation products: Initial operating capabilities

TM Smith, V Lakshmanan, GJ Stumpf… - Bulletin of the …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) system, which was developed at the
National Severe Storms Laboratory and the University of Oklahoma, was made operational …

[HTML][HTML] Storm-based probabilistic hail forecasting with machine learning applied to convection-allowing ensembles

DJ Gagne, A McGovern, SE Haupt… - Weather and …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Forecasting severe hail accurately requires predicting how well atmospheric conditions
support the development of thunderstorms, the growth of large hail, and the minimal loss of …

Severe convective storms across Europe and the United States. Part I: Climatology of lightning, large hail, severe wind, and tornadoes

M Taszarek, JT Allen, P Groenemeijer… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
As lightning-detection records lengthen and the efficiency of severe weather reporting
increases, more accurate climatologies of convective hazards can be constructed. In this …

A climatology of thunderstorms across Europe from a synthesis of multiple data sources

M Taszarek, J Allen, T Púčik, P Groenemeijer… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
The climatology of (severe) thunderstorm days is investigated on a pan-European scale for
the period of 1979–2017. For this purpose, sounding measurements, surface observations …

Climate and hazardous convective weather

MK Tippett, JT Allen, VA Gensini, HE Brooks - Current Climate Change …, 2015 - Springer
Substantial progress has been made recently relating the large-scale climate system and
hazardous convective weather (HCW; tornadoes, hail, and damaging wind), particularly over …

[HTML][HTML] NCAR's experimental real-time convection-allowing ensemble prediction system

CS Schwartz, GS Romine, RA Sobash… - Weather and …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Accadia, C., Mariani S., Casaioli M., Lavagnini A., and Speranza A., 2003: Sensitivity of
precipitation forecast skill scores to bilinear interpolation and a simple nearest-neighbor …

[HTML][HTML] Large hail incidence and its economic and societal impacts across Europe

T Púčik, C Castellano, P Groenemeijer… - Monthly Weather …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract By 31 December 2018, 39 537 quality-controlled reports of large hail had been
submitted to the European Severe Weather Database (ESWD) by volunteers and ESSL. This …