Heinz Jürgen Punge talks weather events and climates, focusing on thunderstorms and hail research. This is done by looking at satellite data and radar data to analyse the extent, the severity and the origins of hailstorms.

Development of a new high-resolution hail loss model in cooperation with an insurance company successfully completed.

Susanna Mohr

Title: Using emulators to understand the sensitivity of deep convective clouds and hail to environmental conditions

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Manuel Schmidberger (2018): Hagelgefährdung und Hagelrisiko in Deutschland basierend auf einer Kombination von Radardaten und Versicherungsdaten

Extreme gusts in summer are often associated with severe damage.

An interdisciplinary research project between IMK-TRO, IWG and GPI enables the estimations of the flood risk in Germany.

Online dossier on the development of megacities, urban climate and quality of life, question of resources and threat of natural hazards.

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On the next WRN spring seminar (18 April 2018), Michael Kunz and Heinz-Jürgen Punge will present their latest work on hail modelling, both in Europe and Australia.

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Susanna Mohr

Florian Ehmele (2018): Stochastische Simulation großflächiger, hochwasserrelevanter Niederschlagsereignisse

SWR Aktuell (In German):

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Susanna Mohr

Fluck Elody (2018): Hail statistics for European countries 

Susanna Mohr

Title: A Long-Term Overshooting Convective Cloud Top Detection Database Over Australia Derived From MTSAT Japanese Advanced Meteorological Imager Observations