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Vulnerability of cotton subjected to hail damage. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 This paper establishes the quantitative relationships between hail fall parameters and crop damages by examining the impacts of 49 hail hazard scenarios on cotton in the bud stage and boll stage.
Yaojie Yue +3 more
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Quantifying Hail Damage in Crops Using Sentinel-2 Imagery
Remote Sensing, 2022 Hailstorms are a frequent natural weather disaster in the Canadian Prairies that can cause catastrophic damage to field crops. Assessment of damage for insurance claims requires insurance inspectors to visit individual fields and estimate damage on ...
Thuan Ha +4 more
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Hail as a damage vector for renewable energy [PDF]
iScienceSummary: Hundreds of thousands of wind turbines and billions of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels are operating worldwide. Reliability, power production and operations, and maintenance costs for these electricity generation sources depend on operating ...
Sara C. Pryor, Rebecca J. Barthelmie
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Defence Technology, 2023 Potential damage in composite structures caused by hail ice impact is an essential safety threat to the aircraft in flight. In this study, a nonlinear finite element (FE) model is developed to investigate the dynamic response and damage behavior of ...
Chao Zhang +4 more
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An open-source radar-based hail damage model for buildings and cars [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System SciencesSevere hailstorms result in substantial damage to buildings and vehicles, necessitating the quantification of associated risks. Here, we present a novel open-source hail damage model for buildings and cars based on single-polarization radar data and 250 ...
T. Schmid +7 more
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Supercell convective environments in Spain based on ERA5: hail and non-hail differences [PDF]
Weather and Climate Dynamics, 2022 Severe convective storms, in particular supercells, are occasionally responsible for a large number of property losses and damage in Spain. This paper aims to study the synoptic configurations and pre-convective environments in a dataset of 262 ...
C. Calvo-Sancho +9 more
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Improved Real‐Time Hail Damage Estimates Leveraging Dense Crowdsourced Observations
Meteorological ApplicationsSevere hail storms are a leading cause of building damages in Switzerland, yet accurately observing hail using weather radar remains challenging. Opportunely, Switzerland benefits from a uniquely dense network of crowdsourced hail reports, providing an ...
Timo Schmid +2 more
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CivilEngHail causes damage to property, including roofs, automobiles, and crops, with an average annual loss of USD 850 million. In residential structures in the southern U.S., tile roofing systems are common due to their resistance to the impact of hail and ...
Gayatri Thakre +2 more
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Liability for damage caused by omission to ensure hailstorm protection [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2022 In this paper, the author analyzes the liability for damage to property caused by hailstorms. Although a hailstorm is a natural phenomenon, the damage caused by hail in certain situations does not represent a casus sentit dominus. The Hydrometeorological
Arsenijević Bojana
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Hail: Mechanisms, Monitoring, Forecasting, Damages, Financial Compensation Systems, and Prevention
Atmosphere, 2023 Hail has long caused extensive damage and economic loss in places inhabited by humans. Climate change is expected to lead to different types of damage due to the geographic characteristics of each continent.
Min Hee Kim, Jaeyong Lee, Seung-Jae Lee
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