The Dynamics of High Winds in Cyclonic Storms over the United Kingdom: The Influences of Diabatic Processes

Average annual loses from European windstorms between 1979-2008 have been calculated a US$ 3.6bn (Barredo, 2010). Knox et al. (2011) list a number of worlwide historical extratropical wind-storm events and damage figures (see Table 1). Many loses are due to damage to trees in forested areas, ? show that 110 million m3 of forests were destroyed by 77 recorded storms during the twentieth century. Woodland damages from specific storms include 15 million trees in the UK due to the 1987 "Great Storm " (Quine, 1988) and 5 million m3 timber damaged by storm "Vivian " (?) Knox et al. (2011