Hurricane Andrew in Florida: Dynamics of a disaster

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 543-549

  Willoughby, H E ^a   Black, P G ^a  

^a NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTER DYNAMICS; EYEWALL REPLACEMENT; HURRICANE; STORM TRANSLATION; VORTEX;

USA, FLORIDA;

EID: 0029729919     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<0543:HAIFDO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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