{"id":505,"date":"2018-02-18T21:45:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T21:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/?p=505"},"modified":"2022-05-15T03:30:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T03:30:38","slug":"vol-13-1-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/2018\/vol-13-1-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Vol 13-1 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Evaluating Multi-Radar, Multi-Sensor Products for Surface Hailfall Diagnosis<\/h4>\n<div><em>Kiel Louis Ortega<\/em><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Abstract<\/h4>\n<div>\n<p>The operational deployment of the multi-radar, multi-sensor (MRMS) system has made available new products to use for hail detection.\u00a0 MRMS products are provided on a spatial grid and can give information on hail size and the spatial extent and distribution of the hail fall.\u00a0 This information is important to a wide audience, including warning forecasters needing to focus on areas for warning verification and insurance users needing to verify a claim.\u00a0 Products are typically verified and evaluated using hail reports from\u00a0<em>Storm Data<\/em>, which are reports collected by local National Weather Service Offices.\u00a0 The National Severe Storms Laboratory conducted a project to collect reports of hail, including reports of &#8220;no hail&#8221; near storms, at high spatial resolution.\u00a0 This project, the Severe Hazards Analysis and Verification Experiment (SHAVE), collected tens of thousands of hail reports over ten years of operations.\u00a0 Three-hundred eighty-nine SHAVE operations, which yielded 21 184 SHAVE reports and 2814\u00a0<em>Storm Data<\/em>\u00a0reports, are investigated.\u00a0 Nine MRMS products were evaluated with the reflectivity at lowest altitude demonstrating the best discrimination for where hail of any size fell and the maximum expected size of hail product provided the best discrimination for severe-sized hail.\u00a0 SHAVE- and\u00a0<em>Storm Data<\/em>-based evaluations showed marked differences in product skill scores.\u00a0 Discussions on the differences between the hail report databases and explorations of vertical profiles of reflectivity are included.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Full Text:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vol13-1.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Citation:<br \/>\nOrtega, K. L., 2018:\u00a0Evaluating multi-radar, multi-sensor products for surface hail-fall diagnosis.<i>\u00a0Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor.<\/i>,\u00a0<b>13<\/b>\u00a0(1), 1-36.<\/p>\n<p>Keywords:<br \/>\nhail, radar observations, radar tools, applied meteorology, operational forecasting, severe storms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h5>Evaluating Multi-Radar, Multi-Sensor Products for Surface Hailfall Diagnosis<\/h5>\n<p><i>Kiel Louis Ortega<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[66,16,21,27,24,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-article","7":"tag-applied-meteorology","8":"tag-hail","9":"tag-operational-forecasting","10":"tag-radar-observations","11":"tag-radar-tools","12":"tag-severe-storms","13":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Elke","author_link":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/author\/elke\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}