Radar-based severe thunderstorm classification in Switzerland from 2016-2021

The data is owned by MeteoSwiss and the Laboratoire de Télédétection Environnementale, EPFL. It is linked to the research article: Feldmann et al., 2022, Hailstorms and rainstorms versus supercells - a regional analysis of convective storm types in the Alpine region, submitted to npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. Whenever using the dataset, please include a reference to this article.

This dataset contains thunderstorm track data of thunderstorms severe thunderstorms in Switzerland from 2016-2020. Tracked variables include time, position, size, translational speed and several intensity variables.

The README.txt file contains a comprehensive list of all included variables and their units. The data is provided as a  .txt file. The methods used to obtain this data are described in the corresponding publication (Feldmann et al., 2022).