Radar- and Satellite-based hail detection and climatology for Western Europe

The project will address the following objectives:​

1. 1. Create a first complete radar-based hail climatology for France, Switzerland and Northern Italy, including hail swaths per event for more than a decade​

2. 2. Design, develop and train geostationary satellite-based hail retrievals using the database created in part 1.​

If successful, the satellite model developed in part (ii) will be applied and blended with the radar climatology across the historical archive to develop a spatially homogeneous pan-European hail climatology.