A method to estimate freezing rain climatology from ERA-Interim reanalysis over Europe

Kämäräinen, Matti; Hyvärinen, Otto; Jylhä, Kirsti; Vajda, Andrea; Neiglick, Simo; Nuottokari, Jaakko; Gregow, Hilppa

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-243-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-243-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-243-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 2

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22 Feb 2017

Research article |

| 22 Feb 2017

A method to estimate freezing rain climatology from ERA-Interim reanalysis over Europe

Matti Kämäräinen, Otto Hyvärinen, Kirsti Jylhä, Andrea Vajda, Simo Neiglick, Jaakko Nuottokari, and Hilppa Gregow

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RC1: 'Referee Comment', Dimitar Nikolov, 20 Sep 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to comments of the referee #1, Dr. Dimitar Nikolov', Matti Kämäräinen, 14 Oct 2016
RC2: 'Reviewer comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 03 Oct 2016
- AC2: 'Reply to comments of the referee #2', Matti Kämäräinen, 14 Oct 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by Editor and Referees) (22 Oct 2016) by Uwe Ulbrich

AR by Matti Kämäräinen on behalf of the Authors (04 Jan 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (23 Jan 2017) by Uwe Ulbrich

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (30 Jan 2017)

ED: Publish as is (01 Feb 2017) by Uwe Ulbrich

AR by Matti Kämäräinen on behalf of the Authors (03 Feb 2017)

Short summary

Freezing rain is a high-impact wintertime weather phenomenon. The direct damage it causes to critical infrastructure (transportation, communication and energy) and forestry can be substantial. In this work a method for estimating the occurrence of freezing rain was evaluated and used to derive the climatology. The method was able to accurately reproduce the observed, spatially aggregated annual variability. The highest frequencies of freezing rain were found in eastern and central Europe.