Articles | Volume 17, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-4529-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-4529-2024
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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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (11 Jun 2024) by Gianfranco Vulpiani
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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.