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A University of Queensland library – full of hailstones instead of books – is helping researchers better understand and predict damaging storms.
Dr Joshua Soderholm, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow from UQ’s School of the Environment, and lead researcher PhD candidate Yuzhu Lin from Penn State in the US, have found storm modelling outcomes change significantly when using real hailstones.