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Yilian Martínez Rodríguez
Gisell Aguilar Oro
Mario Carnesoltas Calvo

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Knowledge of severe local storms in Cuba has been increasing in recent years as a result of both observational studies and Expert System ROSET. However at present the investigations on these subjects are dedicate to determine environmental conditions associated with different kinds of severity events and to discriminate between them. This paper review hail storm climatology in Camagüey during the period 1980-2007. Signifi cant decrease of hail reports are found on 90th decade, in addition to an occurrence increase on May, June and July. This work explores preliminary the relationship between hail occurrence and height of the wet bulb zero behaviours. The height of the wet bulb zero was over 3500 m on the 92.8 % of the days with hail reports analysed, whereas anyone hail report on May or July occur when the height of the wet bulb zero was below 3000 m or over 5000 m.

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Martínez RodríguezY., Aguilar OroG., & Carnesoltas CalvoM. (2011). --. Revista Cubana De Meteorología, 17(2), 39-57. Retrieved from http://rcm.insmet.cu/index.php/rcm/article/view/109
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