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The Braer storm revisited
Author(s) -
Odell Luke,
Knippertz Peter,
Pickering Steven,
Parkes Ben,
Roberts Alexander
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.467
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1477-8696
pISSN - 0043-1656
DOI - 10.1002/wea.2097
Subject(s) - storm , weather research and forecasting model , tropical cyclone , climatology , storm track , cyclone (programming language) , meteorology , environmental science , tropical cyclone forecast model , track (disk drive) , diabatic , extratropical cyclone , geology , geography , physics , field programmable gate array , computer science , computer hardware , thermodynamics , operating system , adiabatic process
The Braer storm of January 1993 was the deepest ever recorded cyclone outside of the Tropics with a minimum core pressure of 914mbar, but due to its track between Scotland and Iceland it caused little damage and was never intensively examined. Here we present a study of the dynamics of the storm using modern re‐analysis data from the European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and sensitivity studies with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to quantify influences of diabatic heating and Greenland's topography on the track and rapid deepening of the storm.