Evaluation of downscaled wind speeds and parameterised gusts for recent and historical windstorms in Switzerland

Evaluation of downscaled wind speeds and parameterised gusts for recent and historical windstorms in Switzerland

Assessments of local-scale windstorm hazard require highly resolved spatial information on wind speeds and gusts. In this study, maximum (peak) sustained wind speeds on a 3-km horizontal grid over Switzerland are obtained by dynamical downscaling from the Twentieth Century Reanalysis (20CR) employin...

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Main Authors: Peter Stucki, Silke Dierer, Christoph Welker, Juan José Gómez-Navarro, Christoph C. Raible, Olivia Martius, Stefan Brönnimann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Stockholm University Press 2016-08-01
Series:Tellus: Series A, Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography
Subjects:
dynamical downscaling
20CR, ERA-Interim
wind speed
wind gust estimation
extreme event
hazard map
Alps
gust factor
risk
WRF wind evaluation
Online Access:http://www.tellusa.net/index.php/tellusa/article/view/31820/48315

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