Extreme weather events in Poland in the 21st century
This papers presents the temporal and spatial variation in the occurrence of extreme weather events in Poland which are not recorded by the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management at its meteorological stations. On the grounds of the European Severe Weather Database, the study covered the occu...
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Kazimierz Wielki University
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| description | This papers presents the temporal and spatial variation in the occurrence of extreme weather events in Poland which are not recorded by the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management at its meteorological stations. On the grounds of the European Severe Weather Database, the study covered the occurrence of weather geo-threats such as: avalanche, dust devil, funnel cloud, gustnado, large hail, ice accumulation, damaging lightning, heavy rain, heavy, snowfall, tornado, severe wind within 2000-2016. The study also includes a case study on the extreme weather event called a bow echo which took place on 12 August 2017 and caused fatalities and significant economic losses within 6 voivodeships. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-874061373eb74b1f8434f297b6831a492022-12-21T21:57:46ZengKazimierz Wielki UniversityJournal of Education, Health and Sport2391-83062017-10-01710405110.5281/zenodo.10009724648Extreme weather events in Poland in the 21st centuryJacek Tylkowski0Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańThis papers presents the temporal and spatial variation in the occurrence of extreme weather events in Poland which are not recorded by the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management at its meteorological stations. On the grounds of the European Severe Weather Database, the study covered the occurrence of weather geo-threats such as: avalanche, dust devil, funnel cloud, gustnado, large hail, ice accumulation, damaging lightning, heavy rain, heavy, snowfall, tornado, severe wind within 2000-2016. The study also includes a case study on the extreme weather event called a bow echo which took place on 12 August 2017 and caused fatalities and significant economic losses within 6 voivodeships.http://www.ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/4954extreme weather events, tornado, storms, geo-threats, bow echo, poland |
| spellingShingle | Jacek Tylkowski Extreme weather events in Poland in the 21st century Journal of Education, Health and Sport extreme weather events, tornado, storms, geo-threats, bow echo, poland |
| title | Extreme weather events in Poland in the 21st century |
| title_full | Extreme weather events in Poland in the 21st century |
| title_fullStr | Extreme weather events in Poland in the 21st century |
| title_full_unstemmed | Extreme weather events in Poland in the 21st century |
| title_short | Extreme weather events in Poland in the 21st century |
| title_sort | extreme weather events in poland in the 21st century |
| topic | extreme weather events, tornado, storms, geo-threats, bow echo, poland |
| url | http://www.ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/4954 |
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