Verification of weather-radar-based hail metrics with crowdsourced observations from Switzerland

Kopp, Jérôme; Hering, Alessandro; Germann, Urs; Martius, Olivia

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-4529-2024

Articles | Volume 17, issue 14

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-4529-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-4529-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 14

Research article

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30 Jul 2024

Research article |

| 30 Jul 2024

Verification of weather-radar-based hail metrics with crowdsourced observations from Switzerland

Jérôme Kopp, Alessandro Hering, Urs Germann, and Olivia Martius

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Final revised paper (published on 30 Jul 2024)
Preprint (discussion started on 25 Mar 2024)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

RC1:
'Comment on egusphere-2024-729', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Apr 2024

Please see attached review.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-729-RC1
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Jérôme Kopp, 05 Jun 2024
  
  The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2024/egusphere-2024-729/egusphere-2024-729-AC1-supplement.pdf
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-729-AC1
RC2:
'Review of egusphere-2024-729', Maarten Reyniers, 30 Apr 2024

Dear editor,
Please find enclosed a pdf with my comprehensive review of the paper "A comprehensive verification of the weather radar-based hail metrics POH and MESHS and a recalibration of POH using dense crowdsourced observations from Switzerland" by Kopp et al. I recommend publication of the current paper, although some important revisions should be taken into account before acceptance.
Kind regards,
Maarten Reyniers

Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-729-RC2
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Jérôme Kopp, 05 Jun 2024
  
  The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2024/egusphere-2024-729/egusphere-2024-729-AC2-supplement.pdf
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-729-AC2

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload

AR by Jérôme Kopp on behalf of the Authors (05 Jun 2024) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (11 Jun 2024) by Gianfranco Vulpiani

ED: Publish as is (12 Jun 2024) by Gianfranco Vulpiani

AR by Jérôme Kopp on behalf of the Authors (12 Jun 2024)

Short summary

We present a verification of two products based on weather radars to detect the presence of hail and estimate its size. Radar products are remote detection of hail, so they must be verified against ground-based observations. We use reports from users of the Swiss Weather Services phone app to do the verification. We found that the product estimating the presence of hail provides fair results but that it should be recalibrated and that estimating the hail size with radar is more challenging.