caa a22 4500 467936439 CHVBK 20180406152958.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11069-005-6581-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11069-005-6581-4 A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Damaging Snowstorms in the United States [Elektronische Daten] [Stanley Changnon, David Changnon] Records of very damaging snowstorms, those causing more than $25 million in property losses, across the United States were assessed to define the spatial and temporal dimensions of the nation's snowstorm activity during 1949-2000. In this 52-year period 155 snowstorms occurred and caused losses totaling $21.6 billion (2000 dollars). The northeastern U.S. had the nation's maximum storm occurrences (79 storms), total losses ($7.3 billion), and storm intensity. Two-thirds of all U.S. losses occurred in the Northeast, Southeast, and Central climate regions, and storm occurrences and losses were least in the western U.S. The incidence of storms peaked in the 1976-1985 period and exhibited no up or down trend during 1949-2000. However, national losses had a significant upward time trend, as did storm sizes and intensity. States with the greatest number of storms were New York (62) and Pennsylvania (58) with only 2 storms in Montana, Idaho, and Utah. Storm losses in the northeastern and southeastern U.S. had U-shaped time distributions with flat time trends for 1949-2000, but losses in the western regions and Deep South had distinct upward trends in losses and storm size. More than 90% of all storm losses in the western U.S. occurred after 1980. These findings indicating increased losses over time reflect that a rapidly growing population and vulnerability of more property at risk have been major factors affecting losses, and the lack of a change over time in snowstorm incidences suggests no change in climate during 1949-2000. Springer, 2006 snowstorms nationallicence U.S nationallicence catastrophes nationallicence climate variability nationallicence economic impacts nationallicence Changnon Stanley Changnon Climatologist, 801 Buckthorn, 61853, Mahomet, Illinois, USA aut Changnon David Department of Geography, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois aut Natural Hazards Kluwer Academic Publishers 37/3(2006-03-01), 373-389 0921-030X 37:3<373 2006 37 11069 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-005-6581-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-005-6581-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Changnon Stanley Changnon Climatologist, 801 Buckthorn, 61853, Mahomet, Illinois, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Changnon David Department of Geography, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Natural Hazards Kluwer Academic Publishers 37/3(2006-03-01), 373-389 0921-030X 37:3<373 2006 37 11069 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer