%0 journal article
%@ 0894-8755
%A Feser, F., Krueger, O., Woth, K., van Garderen, L.

%D 2021
%J Journal of Climate
%N 7
%P 2411-2428 
%R doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0529.1
%T North Atlantic Winter Storm Activity in Modern Reanalyses and Pressure-Based Observations
%U https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0529.1
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%X The similarity of the geostrophic wind speed storm index to reanalyzed high wind speed percentiles and storm numbers confirms its suitability to describe storm frequencies and intensities for multi-decadal time scales. The results show that high wind speeds, storm numbers, and spatial storm track distributions are generally alike in high-resolution reanalyses and downscaled data sets and they reveal an increasing similarity to observations over time. Strong decadal and multi-decadal variability emerged in high wind speed percentiles and storm frequency, but no long-term changes for the last decades were detected.