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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-1-175-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-1-175-2020
Research article
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23 Apr 2020
Research article |  | 23 Apr 2020

Front–orography interactions during landfall of the 1992 New Year's Day Storm

Clemens Spensberger and Sebastian Schemm

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In this paper, we take a second look at the development of an intense storm that made landfall in Norway a few hours into the new year of 1992, focussing on the effect of the Scandinavian mountains on the storm. We find that the cyclone core evolves largely unaffected, although both the warm and the cold fronts decay rapidly while passing over the mountains. This result suggests that the fronts of a cyclone can become detached from their cyclone core as part of the cyclone’s occlusion process.