Reanalysis suggests long-term upward trends in European storminess since 1871

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Donat, M G ^a,b   Renggli, D ^b,c   Wild, S ^b   Alexander, L V ^a   Leckebusch, G C ^b,d   Ulbrich, U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c SWISS REINSURANCE COMPANY   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TIME SERIES;

20TH CENTURY; BALTIC SEA; DATA SETS; NORTH SEA; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL TRENDS; STORM EVENTS; SURFACE OBSERVATION; UPWARD TREND; WESTERN EUROPE; WIND STORMS;

STORMS;

DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RECONSTRUCTION; STORM; TIME SERIES; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; EUROPE; NORTH SEA;

EID: 79960776878     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047995     Document Type: Article

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