Hailstorms and rainstorms versus supercells—a regional analysis of convective storm types in the Alpine region

Abstract The behaviour of severe thunderstorms, particularly supercells, in complex terrain is still poorly understood. Utilising 6 years of radar-, lightning- and radiosounding-based thunderstorm data in the domain of the Swiss radar network, we study different thunderstorm types in separate topogr...

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Main Authors: Monika Feldmann, Alessandro Hering, Marco Gabella, Alexis Berne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-03-01
Series:npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00352-z