Estimates of Hurricane Winds for the East and Gulf Coasts of the United States

Abstract

Extreme hurricane wind speeds can not be predicted by extrapolating annual wind speed distributions. Also, most locations have insufficient historical hurricane data to predict hurricane wind speed distributions. Therefore, Batts, et. al. (1980) estimated hurricane winds indirectly from statistical distributions of hurricane climatological characteristics and a mathematical model of the hurricane wind speed field. The mathematical model relates the climatological characteristics to the maximum wind speeds. The model takes into account the position of the storm 1 center relative to the point of interest, storm decay, wind speed reduction over land due to friction, and the effects of time averaging.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA589168

Entities

Organizations

  • Coastal Engineering Research Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cape Hatteras
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Friction
  • Hurricanes
  • Information Science
  • Mathematical Models
  • Models
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Statistical Distributions
  • Statistical Sampling
  • Storms
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation