Dynamical Downscaling and Loss Modeling for the Reconstruction of Historical Weather Extremes and Their Impacts: A Severe Foehn Storm in 1925

[...]we feed dynamically downscaled wind fields of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis (20CR) ensemble dataset (Compo et al. 2011) into an open-source economic loss model (Bresch 2014) that sweeps this historical windstorm across present-day landscapes and human-built structures. Besides detailed case...

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Published in:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2015-08, Vol.96 (8), p.1233-1242
Main Authors: Stucki, Peter, Brönnimann, Stefan, Martius, Olivia, Welker, Christoph, Rickli, Ralph, Dierer, Silke, Bresch, David N., Compo, Gilbert P., Sardeshmukh, Prashant D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
19th century
20th century
Climate models
Comparative analysis
Computer simulation
Computer-generated environments
Cyclones
Extreme weather
Gusts
History
Meteorology
Modeling
Simulations
Storm damage
Storms
Switzerland
THE MAP ROOM
Weather
Wind
Wind velocity
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Summary:[...]we feed dynamically downscaled wind fields of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis (20CR) ensemble dataset (Compo et al. 2011) into an open-source economic loss model (Bresch 2014) that sweeps this historical windstorm across present-day landscapes and human-built structures. Besides detailed case studies of historical events, our approach facilitates statistical or dynamical analyses of meaningful sample sizes (e.g., of extreme impacts at centennial time scales).
ISSN:0003-0007
1520-0477
DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00041.1