%0 conference lecture
%@ 
%A Krieger, D., Krueger, O., Feser, F., Weisse, R., Tinz, B., von Storch, H.

%D 2020
%J EGU General Assembly 2020

 
%R doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-6829
%T German Bight Storminess over the Last Century
%U https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-6829
 
%X The results show that storm activity over the German Bight is subject to multidecadal variability. The latest decades are characterized by an increase in activity from the 1960s to the 1990s, followed by a decline lasting into the 2000s and below-average activity up until present. The results are backed through a comparison with reanalysis products from four datasets, which provide high-resolution wind and pressure data starting in 1979 and offshore wind speed measurements taken from the FINO-WIND project. This study also finds that German Bight storminess positively correlates with storminess in the North-East Atlantic in general. In certain years, however, notably different levels of storm activity in the two regions can be found, which likely result from shifted large-scale circulation patterns.