A catalog of high-impact windstorms in Switzerland since 1859

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2867-2882

  Stucki, P ^a   Bronnimann S ^a   Martius, O ^a,b   Welker, C ^a   Imhof, M ^c   Von Wattenwyl, N ^a   Philipp, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Mobiliar Lab for Natural Risks   (Switzerland)

^c Interkantonaler Rückversicherungsverband   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECADAL VARIATION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; NATURAL DISASTER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL HISTORY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STORM; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84908575799     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-14-2867-2014     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. BAFU (Bundesamt für Umwelt): Sturmschaden-Handbuch. Vollzugshilfe für die Bewältigung von Sturmschadenereignissen von nationaler Bedeutung im Wald., Umwelt-Vollzug, Bundesamt für Umwelt, Bern, 0801, 241, 2008 (in German).
2. BAFU (Bundesamt für Umwelt): Jahrbuch Wald und Holz - Annuaire La forêt et le bois, Umwelt-Zustand, 1224, 174, 2012 (in German and French).
3. Barredo, J. I.: No upward trend in normalised windstorm losses in Europe: 1970-2008, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 10, 97-104, doi:10.5194/nhess-10-97-2010, 2010.
4. Bengtsson, A. and Nilsson, C.: Extreme value modelling of storm damage in Swedish forests, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 7, 515-521, doi:10.5194/nhess-7-515-2007, 2007.
5. Bouwer, L. M.: Have Disaster Losses Increased Due to Anthropogenic Climate Change?, B. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 92, 39-46, 2011.
6. Brändli, D.: Schwere Winterstürme über der Schweiz 1500-1995, 40 pp., Universität Bern, 1996 (in German).
7. Brázdil, R., Pfister, C., Wanner, H., Von Storch, H., and Luterbacher, J.: Historical climatology in Europe - The state of the art, Clim. Change, 70, 363-430, 2005.
8. Bresch, D., Bisping, M., and Lemcke, G.: Storm over Europe, an underestimated risk, Swiss Reinsurance Company, Zurich, 2000.
9. Brodin, E. and Rootzén, H.: Univariate and bivariate GPD methods for predicting extreme wind storm losses, Insur. Math. Econ., 44, 345-356, 2009.
10. Brönnimann, S., Martius, O., von Waldow, H., Welker, C., Luterbacher, J., Compo, G. P., Sardeshmukh, P. D., and Usbeck, T.: Extreme winds at northern mid-latitudes since 1871, Meteorol. Z., 21, 13-27, 2012.
11. Bründl, M. and Rickli, C.: The storm Lothar 1999 in Switzerland: An incident analysis, Forest Snow Landsc. Res., 77, 207-216, 2002.
12. Burger, H.: Sturmschaden, Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Anstalt für das Forstl. Versuchswesen, (Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaftt WSL), 17, 341-376, 1932 (in German).
13. Bütikofer, N.: Historische Waldschäden in der Schweiz (1800-1960). Unveröffentlichte Lizentiatsarbeit im Fach Schweizergeschichte, Univ. Bern, 1987 (in German).
14. Ceppi, P., Della-Marta, P. M., and Appenzeller, C.: Extreme Value Analysis of Wind Speed Observations over Switzerland, Arbeitsberichte der Meteo Schweiz, 219, 43 pp., 2008.
15. Coles, S.: An Introduction to Statistical Modeling of Extreme Values, Springer, London, 2001.
16. Compo, G. P., Whitaker, J. S., Sardeshmukh, P. D., Matsui, N., Allan, R. J., Yin, X., Gleason, B. E., Vose, R. S., Rutledge, G., Bessemoulin, P., Brönnimann, S., Brunet, M., Crouthamel, R. I., Grant, A. N., Groisman, P. Y., Jones, P. D., Kruk, M. C., Kruger, A. C., Marshall, G. J., Maugeri, M., Mok, H. Y., Nordli, O., Ross, T. F., Trigo, R. M., Wang, X. L., Woodruff, S. D., and Worley, S. J.: The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project, Q. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 137, 1-28, 2011.
17. Cornes, R. C. and Jones, P. D.: An examination of storm activity in the northeast Atlantic region over the 1851-2003 period using the EMULATE gridded MSLP data series, J. Geophys. Res.- Atmos., 116, D16110, doi:10.1029/2011JD016007, 2011.
18. Crichton, D.: The risk triangle, in: Natural disaster management, edited by: Ingleton, J., p. 320, Tudor Rose, London., 1999.
19. Cusack, S.: A 101 year record of windstorms in the Netherlands, Clim. Change, 116, 693-704, 2013.
20. Della-Marta, P. M., Mathis, H., Frei, C., Liniger, M. A., and Kleinn, J.: The return period of wind storms over Europe, Int. J. Climatol., 459, 437-459, 2009.
21. HISTAT: Historical statistics of switzerland online, available at: www.fsw.uzh.ch/histstat/main.php, last access: 16 May 2014.
22. FXTOP sarl: available at: http://fxtop.com/, last access: 16 May 2014.
23. Gardiner, B., Blennow, K., Carnus, J., Fleischer, P., Ingemarson, F., Landmann, G., Lindner, M., Marzano, M., Nicoll, B., Orazio, C., Peyron, J., Schelhaas, M., Schuck, A., Spielmann, M., and Usbeck, T.: Destructive Storms in European Forests: Past and Forthcoming Impacts, European Forest Institute Atlantic European Regional Office - EFIATLANTIC, Bordeaux, 2010.
24. Ginzler, C., Brändli, U.-B., and Hägeli, M.: Waldflächenentwicklung der letzten 120 Jahre in der Schweiz, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen, 162, 337-343, 2011 (in German).
25. Grünenfelder, T.: Sturmschäden im Wald 1990, edited by: Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape, Umweltschutz der Schweiz, Bull. des Bundesamtes für Umwelt, Wald und Landschaft, 2, 1990 (in German).
26. Heneka, P., Hofherr, T., Ruck, B., and Kottmeier, C.: Winter storm risk of residential structures - model development and application to the German state of Baden-Württemberg, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 6, 721-733, doi:10.5194/nhess-6-721-2006, 2006.
27. Holenstein, B.: Sturmschäden 1990 im Schweizer Wald, Schriftenr. Umwelt, Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests Landsc., 218, 41 pp., 1994 (in German).
28. Imhof, M.: Analyse langfristiger Gebäudeschadendaten, Interkantonaler Rückversicherungsverband IRV, 2011 (in German and French).
29. Kleinn, C.: Skript Waldmesslehre, Waldinventur I, Course Notes 2013, available at: www.iww.forst.uni-goettingen.de (last access: 16 May 2014), 2013.
30. Kron, W., Steuer, M., Löw, P., and Wirtz, A.: How to deal properly with a natural catastrophe database - analysis of flood losses, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 535-550, doi:10.5194/nhess- 12-535-2012, 2012.
31. Kurz, D., Alveteg, M., and Sverdrup, H.: Acidification of Swiss forest soils: development of a regional dynamic assessment, Bundesamt für Umwelt, Wald und Landschaft, Bern, 1998.
32. Lamb, H. and Frydendahl, K.: Historic storms of the North Sea, British Isles, and Northwest Europe, Cambridge, edited by: Frydendahl, K., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991.
33. Lanz-Stauffer, H. and Rommel, C.: Elementarschäden und Versicherung: Studie des Rückversicherungsverbandes kantonalschweizerischer Feuerversicherungsanstalten zur Förderung der Elementarschadenversicherung, Im Selbstverlag des Rückversicherungsverbandes, Bern, 1936 (in German).
34. Mailier, P., Stephenson, D. B., Ferro, C. A. T., and Hodges, K. I.: Serial Clustering of Extratropical Cyclones, Mon. Weather Rev., 134, 2224-2240, 2006.
35. Matulla, C., Schöner, W., Alexandersson, H., Storch, H., and Wang, X. L.: European storminess: late nineteenth century to present, Clim. Dynam., 31, 125-130, 2008.
36. Munich Re: Sturmschäden in Europa Erkenntnisse und Schlussfolgerungen aus den Sturmereignissen der letzten zehn Jahre, Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft, 1973 (in German).
37. Munich Re: Winter storms in Europe (II), Analysis of 1999 Losses and Loss Potentials, Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft, Munich, 2002.
38. Muriset, F.: Schwergewitter auf der Alpennordseite der Schweiz, Berner Maturitätsschule für Erwachsene BME, Bern, 92, 2003 (in German).
39. Pfister, C.: Wetternachhersage: 500 Jahre Klimavariationen und Naturkatastrophen (1496-1995), Verlag Paul Haupt, Bern, 1999 (in German).
40. Pfister, C.: The "Disaster Gap" of the 20(th) Century and the Loss of Traditional Disaster Memory, Gaia - Ecological Perspect. Sci. Soc., 18, 239-246, 2009.
41. Pielke, R. and Landsea, C.: Normalized hurricane damages in the United States: 1925-95, Weather Forecast., 13, 621-631, 1998.
42. Prodan, M.: Holzmesslehre, Verlag Sauerländer, Frankfurt a.M., 1965 (in German).
43. Rootzén, H. and Tajvidi, N.: Extreme value statistics and wind storm losses: a case study, Scand. Actuar. J., 1, 70-94, 1997.
44. Sanders, D. E. A: The modelling of extreme events, Br. Actuar. J., 11, 519-572, 2005.
45. Schiesser, H. H., Pfister, C., and Bader, J.: Winter Storms in Switzerland North of the Alps 1864/1865-1993/1994, Theor. Appl. Clim., 19, 1-19, 1997a.
46. Schiesser, H. H., Waldvogel, A., Schmid, W., and Willemse, S.: Klimatologie der Stürme und Sturmsysteme anhand von Radar- und Schadendaten, Schlussber., vdf Hochschulverlag AG an der ETH Zürich, Zürich, 1997b (in German).
47. Schmith, T., Kaas, E., and Li, T. S.: Northeast Atlantic winter storminess 1875-1995 re-analysed, Clim. Dynam., 14, 529-536, 1998.
48. Schüepp, M., Schiesser, H. H., Huntrieser, H., Scherrer, H. U., and Schmidtke, H.: The winter storm Vivian of 27 February 1990: About the meteorological development, wind forces and damage situation in the forests of Switzerland, Theor. Appl. Climatol., 49, 183-200, 1994.
49. Stucki, P., Rickli, R., Brönnimann, S., Martius, O., Wanner, H., Grebner, D., and Luterbacher, J.: Weather patterns and hydroclimatological precursors of extreme floods in Switzerland since 1868, Meteorol. Z., 21, 531-550, 2012.
50. Swiss Re: Folgen der Klimaveränderung: Mehr Sturmschäden in Europa, 2006.
51. Usbeck, T., Wohlgemuth, T., Dobbertin, M., Pfister, C., Bürgi, A., Rebetez, M., and Buergi, A.: Increasing storm damage to forests in Switzerland from 1858 to 2007, Agr. Forest Meteorol., 150, 47-55, 2010a.
52. Usbeck, T., Wohlgemuth, T., Pfister, C., Volz, R., Beniston, M., and Dobbertin, M.: Wind speed measurements and forest damage in Canton Zurich (Central Europe) from 1891 to winter 2007, Int. J. Climatol., 30, 347-358, 2010b.
53. Wang, X. L., Wan, H., Zwiers, F.W., Swail, V. R., Compo, G. P., Allan, R. J., Vose, R. S., Jourdain, S., and Yin, X.: Trends and lowfrequency variability of storminess over western Europe, 1878-2007, Clim. Dynam., 37, 2355-2371, 2011.
54. Welker, C. and Martius, O.: Decadal-scale variability in hazardous winds in northern Switzerland since end of the 19th century, Atmos. Sci. Lett., 15, 86-91, 2013.
55. Welker, C. and Martius, O.: Large-scale atmospheric flow conditions and sea surface temperatures associated with hazardous winds in Switzerland, Clim. Dyn., in revision, 2014.
56. WSL: Lothar Der Orkan 1999 Ereignisanalyse, Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft, 2001 (in German).
57. Zurich Statistics Office (Stadt Zürich Statistik), available at: https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/statistik.html, last access: 16 May 2014 (in German).