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Imaggeo on Mondays: The British Winter Storms

This week’s imaggeo on Monday’s photography is Godrevy Lighthouse in North Cornwall (UK) experiencing the full force of the 2013/14 British Winter Storms which caused damage across the south west of the country. During mid-December 2013 to mid-February 2014 the UK was hit by six major storms bringing record precipitation, strong winds, huge waves and generating overall hazardous conditions. Despite the overall consensus being that these winter months were very wet, the question arose: did the period indeed represent unprecedented storminess? Work carried out by a team of researchers to answer this very question found that the 2013/14 storms where the strongest experienced by the Biritish Isle in a 143 year period. The extreme precipitation, as well as atmospheric and gale measurements confirmed the findings. With the storms triggering coastal flooding and gale force winds causing millions of pounds worth of damage to properties and infrastructure across Cornwall (and elsewhere in the country) it is clear that further research is needed in understanding the process which drive storminess in the region, concluded the study. Imaggeo is the EGU’s online open access geosciences image repository. All geoscientists (and others) can submit their photographs and videos to this repository and, since it is open access, these images can be used for free by scientists for their presentations or publications, by educators and the general public, and some images can even be used freely for commercial purposes. Photographers also retain full rights of use, as Imaggeo images are licensed and distributed by the EGU under a Creative Commons licence. Submit your photos at http://imaggeo.egu.eu/upload/.

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