Hail events across the Greater Metropolitan Severe Thunderstorm Warning Area

Rasuly, A. A.; Cheung, K. K. W.; McBurney, B.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-973-2015

Articles | Volume 15, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-973-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-973-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 5

Research article

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13 May 2015

Research article |

| 13 May 2015

Hail events across the Greater Metropolitan Severe Thunderstorm Warning Area

A. A. Rasuly, K. K. W. Cheung, and B. McBurney

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Final revised paper (published on 13 May 2015)
Preprint (discussion started on 18 Nov 2014)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C2669: 'Hailstones across the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Area manuscript-version 3', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Dec 2014
- AC C3509: 'Reply to anonymous referee 2 (C2669)', kevin cheung, 25 Feb 2015
  - AC C3511: 'Revised manuscript and changes', kevin cheung, 25 Feb 2015
RC C2723: 'referee report', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Dec 2014
- AC C3510: 'Reply to anonymous referee 1 (C2723)', kevin cheung, 25 Feb 2015
  - AC C3512: 'Revised manuscript and changes', kevin cheung, 25 Feb 2015

Short summary

A climatological oriented geographic information system is used to model hail storm occurrence during 1989--2013 in the Greater Metropolitan Thunderstorm Warning Area of New South Wales, Australia. There was an average of 14.3 events per year, but a significant decreasing trend of hail frequency in recent years has been identified. Spatial models have established three main hail distribution patterns: the Sydney metropolitan, coastal area and strong topographic effect.