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- Title
Quantifying the extremity of windstorms for regions featuring infrequent events.
- Authors
Walz, Michael A.; Kruschke, Tim; Rust, Henning W.; Ulbrich, Uwe; Leckebusch, Gregor C.
- Abstract
This paper introduces the Distribution-Independent Storm Severity Index (DI-SSI). The DI-SSI represents an approach to quantify the severity of exceptional surface wind speeds of large scale windstorms that is complementary to the SSI introduced by Leckebusch et al. While the SSI approaches the extremeness of a storm from a meteorological and potential loss (impact) perspective, the DI-SSI defines the severity in a more climatological perspective. The idea is to assign equal index values to wind speeds of the same singularity (e.g. the 99th percentile) under consideration of the shape of the tail of the local wind speed climatology. Especially in regions at the edge of the classical storm track, the DI-SSI shows more equitable severity estimates, e.g. for the extra-tropical cyclone Klaus. In order to compare the indices, their relation with the North Atlantic Oscillation is studied, which is one of the main large scale drivers for the intensity of European windstorms.
- Subjects
WINDSTORMS; WIND speed; KLAUS Storm, 2009; NORTH Atlantic oscillation; TROPICAL cyclones
- Publication
Atmospheric Science Letters (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ), 2017, Vol 18, Issue 7, p315
- ISSN
1530-261X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/asl.758