European windstorms are different from hurricanes in that they then to
occur in clusters. Does anyone know how to use (modify) a Poisson
process to model frequency / severity of European windstorms.

wrote:
European windstorms are different from hurricanes in that they then to
occur in clusters. Does anyone know how to use (modify) a Poisson
process to model frequency / severity of European windstorms.

Don't know what you mean by 'European windstorm'
John
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York,
North Yorkshire.
(c.20 metre AMSL)

Extra-tropical cyclones: severe cyclonic storm that tracks across the
North Atlantic towards northwestern Europe in the winter months.

However, I'm not looking to do anything very complicated.....just want
to have a simple model (maybe non-homogenous Poisson) which reflects
the fact that these storms tend to occur in clusters.

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@g37g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

Extra-tropical cyclones: severe cyclonic storm that tracks across the
North Atlantic towards northwestern Europe in the winter months.

However, I'm not looking to do anything very complicated.....just want
to have a simple model (maybe non-homogenous Poisson) which reflects
the fact that these storms tend to occur in clusters.

See if you can find Pascal Mailier's work: "Analysis of Clustering and
Analysis of Clustering and Seriality Seriality in European Windstorms" - he
was at REading University (quite possibly still is).

Richard

On Jun 6, 9:33 pm, wrote:
Extra-tropical cyclones: severe cyclonic storm that tracks across the
North Atlantic towards northwestern Europe in the winter months.

However, I'm not looking to do anything very complicated.....just want
to have a simple model (maybe non-homogenous Poisson) which reflects
the fact that these storms tend to occur in clusters.

There is an archive of sea level pressure maps on WetterZentrale.
It's a pain in the bum to read. It could do with a batch file or
whatever they call them to open a set of them -say a weeks worth, at a
time.

No link, sorry. If I could read German I'd be there now.
They also do a DVD of upper atmosphere stuff. I wonder if they do one
for the sea levels.