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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">NHESSD</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">NHESSD</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2195-9269</issn>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/nhess-2022-264</article-id>
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<article-title>Central European wind and precipitation compound events are not just due to winter storms</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Müller</surname>
<given-names>Miloslav</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3643-9643</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Kašpar</surname>
<given-names>Marek</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Bližňák</surname>
<given-names>Vojtěch</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0108-7796</ext-link>
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<addr-line>The Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Bočni II 1401, Prague, 141 00, Czechia</addr-line>
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<addr-line>Charles University, Faculty of Science, Albertov 6, Prague 128 00, Czechia</addr-line>
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<funding-source>Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy</funding-source>
<award-id>LTC19043</award-id>
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<funding-source>Technologická Agentura České Republiky</funding-source>
<award-id>SS02030040</award-id>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>14</day>
<month>11</month>
<year>2022</year>
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<volume>2022</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>19</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2022 Miloslav Müller et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2022</copyright-year>
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<p>&lt;p&gt;Unlike other studies on wind-precipitation compound events, station data was employed from all seasons 1961&amp;ndash;2020 to analyze the frequency and seasonal distribution of these events in Central Europe. The spatial pattern of the annual frequency is mainly determined by the cold half-years when the frequency generally decreases with increasing longitude (due to the decreasing effect of extratropical cyclones), but it also increases with increasing altitude (probably due to the orographic precipitation enhancement effected by strong winds). Nevertheless, wind-precipitation compound events are also generated by convective storms mainly in summer, when compound events are more equally distributed in Central Europe, with generally higher frequencies in lowlands. Five types of weather stations were distinguished according to the seasonal distribution of wind-precipitation compound events, with the percentage of summer events as the main criterion. Mostly winter type dominates in the west, mostly autumn type at the coast of the North Sea, mixed type in north-east Germany, mostly summer type in central part of Germany, and summer type in eastern part of Czechia and in south-east Austria. We also demonstrate on selected examples that compound events frequently occur at a station only in the season when both abnormal winds and abnormal precipitation events appear and are related to the same circulation conditions. This is the reason why wind-precipitation compound events are very rare at some stations, mainly in the highlands in the eastern part of the study region. We also discuss the role of the threshold for selecting wind-precipitation compound events and prove that the higher their frequency is at a station, the higher the percentage of stronger events among them. This finding highlights wind-precipitation compound events as a significant natural hazard mainly in exposed areas.&lt;/p&gt;</p>
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