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Maximum expected hailstone sizes (MESHS)
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.).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18751/Climate/Griddata/CHHC/1.0
This data set is outdated. Please use the new Open Data (OGD) data sets from MeteoSwiss: https://www.meteoswiss.admin.ch/services-and-publications/service/open-data.html (Direct Link: https://opendatadocs.meteoswiss.ch/c-climate-data/c5-radar-based-climate-data)
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Hailstone sizes (MESHS)
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-04-29
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-05-05
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-08-10
- Status
- Obsolete
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- F Geoscientific information
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- Description
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Switzerland
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Extent
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Liechtenstein
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- 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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climatology
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hail
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meteorology
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weather
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natural hazard
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climate
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climatic change
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- GEMET themes
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natural dynamics
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climate
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Resource specific usage
- Specific usage
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data
Publisher
Resource constraints
- Other constraints
- Opendata OPEN: Open use.
- Country
- CH
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Subtopic Category
- F3 Natural Hazards
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Text (TXT)
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- Geometric object type
- Surface
- Reference system identifier
- LV95:EPSG:2056
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 0cde4664-c308-447e-890a-aa7afc36a3b0
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Français
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Italiano
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/0cde4664-c308-447e-890a-aa7afc36a3b0
- Date info (Creation)
- 2021-04-29T12:56:49Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-06-15T07:21:16.217457Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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eCH-0271
