Quantifying the extremity of windstorms for regions featuring infrequent events

• Published in: Atmospheric Science Letters
• Main Authors: Walz, Michael A., Kruschke, Tim, Rust, Henning W., Ulbrich, Uwe, Leckebusch, Gregor C.
• Other Authors: Natural Environment Research Council, Research Councils UK, Freie Universität Berlin, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: Klaus; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asl.758; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fasl.758; https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/asl.758

Abstract This paper introduces the Distribution‐Independent Storm Severity Index (DI‐SSI). The DI‐SSI represents an approach to quantify the severity of exceptional surface wind speeds of large scale windstorms that is complementary to the SSI introduced by Leckebusch et al . While the SSI approache...