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Maximum expected hailstone sizes (radar)
The data contain the largest hailstone size by month and year, respectively, as well as the average number of days with hailstone sizes from 2 cm and 4 cm, respectively. Hailstone sizes cannot be measured on the ground over a large areas. The size is derived from radar measurements and describes the maximum expected hail size on one square kilometer based on the radar parameter MESHS (Maximum Expected Severe Hail Size).
Due to the infrequent occurrence of hail, averaging of hailstone sizes over many years is not meaningful. The number of days from hailstone sizes of at least 2 cm and 4 cm is provided as climatology. These data allow a robust statement about the frequency of events of certain hailstone sizes.
Hailstone sizes are given in classes from 2 cm to greater than 6 cm in 0.5 cm increments, with the lower end being inclusive and the upper end exclusive: the grid value 2 represents values from 2 cm (incl.) to 2.5 cm (excl.).
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Identification info
- Alternate title
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Hailstone sizes (radar)
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-04-29
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-05-05
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-08-10
Point of contact
Responsible party
- Organisation name
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Federal Office of Meterology and Climatology
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+41 58 460 99 99
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Zürich-Flughafen
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8058
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CH
- Electronic mail address
- Address line
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Operation Center 1
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257
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WWW:LINK
- Hours of service
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09:00-11:30 & 13:30-16:30
- Role
- Point of contact
- Organisation Acronym
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MeteoSwiss
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- User defined maintenance frequency
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Meteorological geographical features
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Atmospheric conditions
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GEMET
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weather
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climatology
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hail
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climatic change
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natural hazard
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climate
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meteorology
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GEMET themes
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natural dynamics
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climate
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geocat.ch
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opendata.swiss
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data
Responsible party
- Organisation name
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Federal Office of Meterology and Climatology
- Voice
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+41 58 460 99 99
Address
- City
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Zürich-Flughafen
- Postal code
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8058
- Country
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CH
- Electronic mail address
- Address line
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Operation Center 1
- Post box
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257
- Protocol
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WWW:LINK
- Hours of service
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09:00-11:30 & 13:30-16:30
- Role
- Publisher
- Organisation Acronym
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MeteoSwiss
- Other constraints
- Opendata OPEN: Open use.
- Country
- Switzerland
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- F Geology, Soils, Natural Hazards
- F3 Natural Hazards
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- Description
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Switzerland
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- Description
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Liechtenstein
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Text (TXT)
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Text (TXT)
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Technical information and further products
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Technical information and further products
- OnLine resource
- Grid data (netcdf) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL )
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Permalink opendata.swiss
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OPENDATA:SWISS
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- Geometric object type
- Surface
- Reference system identifier
- LV95:EPSG:2056
Metadata
- Metadata language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2023-07-19T09:15:31.651Z
- Metadata standard name
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GM03_2
Metadata author
Responsible party
- Organisation name
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Federal Office of Meterology and Climatology
- Voice
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+41 58 460 99 99
Address
- City
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Zürich-Flughafen
- Postal code
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8058
- Country
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CH
- Electronic mail address
- Address line
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Operation Center 1
- Post box
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257
- Protocol
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WWW:LINK
- Hours of service
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09:00-11:30 & 13:30-16:30
- Role
- Point of contact
- Organisation Acronym
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MeteoSwiss
