The Northern Hail Project: uncovering the meteorology, climatology, and impacts of hailstorms in Canada

北方冰雹项目与减少灾难性损失研究所、商业和家庭安全保险研究所、气象学和即时天气研究所合作，解决了冰雹的关键数据和知识差距，并增进了我们对加拿大各地冰雹发生、影响和损害的了解，以便最终开发/改进管理相关风险和减少我们对冰雹脆弱性的手段。北方冰雹项目的一个独特目标是利用各种方法和工具系统地收集与加拿大各地破坏性冰雹事件有关的所有可能数据。我们的方法最终将使我们能够评估破坏性风暴和风驱动的冰雹事件对基础设施和暴露于极端天气相关危害的人的影响。所开发的数据库、观测和分析气候学、预警系统以及严重和极端冰雹的风险模型可用于制定适应措施，这可能特别有益于孤立和边缘化社区以及卡尔加里等大城市。北方冰雹项目将培训55名高素质人员，包括1名博士后研究员，10名博士生，7名硕士生和37名暑期研究实习生，为他们提供填补与严重风暴影响和评估相关的行业空白所需的实践经验。受训人员将参与设备的操作及其部署，并获得宝贵的数据分析和编码技能。他们将利用大量的测量数据，以获得最大的科学和社会效益。总的来说，学员将获得多学科的能力和经验，使他们能够应对未来的极端天气及其影响。

The Northern Hail Project, in partnership with the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety, Weatherlogics, and Instant Weather, addresses key data and knowledge gaps for hail and advances our understanding of hail occurrence, impacts and damages across Canada in order to, ultimately, develop/improve means for managing the associated risks and reducing our vulnerability to hail. A unique ambition of the Northern Hail Project is to capture all possible data related to damaging hail events systematically across Canada using a wide range of methods and tools. Our approach will eventually enable us to assess the impacts of damaging storm and wind-driven hail events on infrastructure and people who are exposed to extreme weather-related hazards. The developed databases, observational and analytical climatologies, warning systems and risk models for severe and extreme hailstorms can be used for the development of adaptation measures, which may be particularly beneficial for isolated and marginalized communities as well as large cities such as Calgary. The Northern Hail Project will train 55 Highly Qualified Personnel, consisting of 1 Postdoctoral researcher, 10 Doctoral students, 7 Masters students , and 37 summer research interns, offering them the hands-on experiences needed to fill gaps in industry related to the impacts and assessments of severe storms. Trainees will be involved in the operation of the equipment and its deployment and gain valuable data analysis and coding skills. They will exploit the vast amount of measured data for maximum scientific and societal benefit. Collectively, trainees will acquire multi-disciplinary capabilities and experiences that position them for future opportunities dealing with extreme weather and its impacts.