Weather extremes during the past 140 years

Content

• Historical weather extremes in the "Twentieth Century Reanalysis"
• Reanalysis of the Hamburg Surge of 1962
• An analysis of the Galveston Hurricane using the 20CR data set
• The Storm Surge Event of the Netherlands in 1953
• Synoptic Analysis of the New York March 1888 Blizzard
• The extreme flood event of Lago Maggiore in September 1993
• Arctic Winds in the "Twentieth Century Reanalysis"
• The heatwaves in Switzerland in summer 1947
• The 1945 – 1949 droughts in Switzerland
• The 1872 Baltic Sea storm surge
• The Samoa Hurricane, 15 – 16 March 1889