Radar-based hail detection

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 144, Issue , 2014, Pages 175-185

  Skripniková, Kateřina ^a,b   Řezáčová, Daniela ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Hail damage risk; Hail detection; Weather radar

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DAMAGE DETECTION; LOSSES; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; STORMS; TRACKING RADAR;

ALTERNATE APPROACHES; AREA OF INTEREST; COMBINED CRITERION; HAIL DAMAGE; HAIL DETECTION; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; OPTIMAL THRESHOLD; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ALGORITHM; HAIL; METEOROLOGY; RADAR; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WEATHER;

CZECH REPUBLIC; GERMANY;

EID: 84899622496     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2013.06.002     Document Type: Article

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