ICECHIP
In-situ Collaborative Experiment for the Collection of Hail In the Plains
ICECHIP will focus on the U.S. Central Plains and Front Range of the Rocky Mountains including Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas.
Victor Gensini
Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), ICECHIP, the first U.S. hail-focused field campaign in over 40 years, will use modern instrumentation and numerical modeling capabilities to provide a long-awaited advancement in hail science. Researchers from 15 institutions and 3 international partners will deploy a fully mobile network for ~6 weeks across the U.S. Front Range and Central Plains, gathering observations from a wide variety of hailstorms and hail types. This first-of-its-kind dataset will be instrumental in improving radar-based hail detection, hail models and forecasting, and resulting warnings.
Principal Investigators
Rebecca Adams-Selin Atmospheric and Environmental Research (Lead PI)
John Allen Central Michigan University
Victor Gensini Northern Illinois University
Andrew Heymsfield National Center for Atmospheric Research
Steering Committee
Brian Argrow Univ. Colorado Boulder
Ian Giammanco Insurace Institute for Business & Home Safety
Karen Kosiba Univ. Alabama Huntsville
Matthew Kumjian Pennsylvania State Univ.
Joshua Wurman Univ. Alabama Huntsville
Additional Science PIs
V. Chandrasekar Colorado State Univ.
Xingchao Chen Pennsylvania State Univ.
Daniel Dawson Purdue Univ.
Justin Dodd Northern Illinois Univ.
Katja Friedrich Univ. Colorado Boulder
Yongli Gao Univ. Texas San Antonio
Cameron Homeyer Oklahoma Univ.
Jason Keeler Central Michigan Univ.
Zachary Lebo Oklahoma Univ.
Kelly Lombardo Pennsylvania State Univ.
Ted Mansell NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory
Russ Schumacher Colorado State Univ.
Hannah Vagasky Atmospheric and Environmental Research
Loren White Jackson State University
Yunji Zhang Pennsylvania State Univ.
Conrad Ziegler NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory
Collaborators/Partners
Australian Bureau of Meteorology (Joshua Soderholm, Alain Protait)
Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (Ian Giammanco)
Northern Hail Project (Julian Brimelow)
Universität Bern (Olivia Romppainen-Martius)
Data Manager
EOL Archive NCAR/EOL/DMS