An 18-year climatology of derechos in Germany

Gatzen, Christoph P.; Fink, Andreas H.; Schultz, David M.; Pinto, Joaquim G.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1335-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1335-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1335-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 5

Research article

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19 May 2020

Research article |

| 19 May 2020

An 18-year climatology of derechos in Germany

Christoph P. Gatzen, Andreas H. Fink, David M. Schultz, and Joaquim G. Pinto

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Final revised paper (published on 19 May 2020)
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RC1: 'Excellent contribution to European convective windstorm research, but there is a potential to improve the paper', Mateusz Taszarek, 14 Nov 2019
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer 1', Christoph Gatzen, 16 Jan 2020
RC2: 'Rev_An 18-year climatology of derechos in Germany', Anonymous Referee #2, 24 Nov 2019
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer 2', Christoph Gatzen, 16 Jan 2020

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

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (01 Feb 2020) by Piero Lionello

AR by Christoph Gatzen on behalf of the Authors (11 Feb 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (15 Feb 2020) by Piero Lionello

AR by Christoph Gatzen on behalf of the Authors (16 Feb 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (27 Feb 2020) by Piero Lionello

AR by Christoph Gatzen on behalf of the Authors (07 Mar 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (17 Mar 2020) by Piero Lionello

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AA by Christoph Gatzen on behalf of the Authors (08 May 2020) Author's adjustment Manuscript

EA: Adjustments approved (08 May 2020) by Piero Lionello

Short summary

Derechos are widespread, convectively induced severe wind events. A climatology of derechos in Germany is presented. It shows that derechos are not uncommon across the country. Two seasonal peaks indicate a comparable derecho risk in summer and winter. At the same time, we found two different derecho types, a warm- and a cold-season type. We present characteristics of both derecho types that can help forecasters to estimate the potential derecho threat in a given weather situation.