Violent weather touches thousands of lives, homes and businesses around the world each year. Billions of dollars are spent on cleanup and reconstruction. Climatologists and meteorologists at the Meteorological Alpine Project (MAP) are using specialized computer technology to discover how hot winds in the African desert develop into a damaging hail storm in the Swiss Alps.

Originally released by TMW Media Group, 2014. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on February 08, 2017.

Mesoscale Alpine Program (4:21); --Researching the Weather (2:09); -- Hail Storms (2:26); -- Storm Analysis (2:42); -- Increasing Detection Response Times (3:09); -- Credits: Meteorology - Predicting Dangerous Weather: Show Me Science (0:08); .