Hurricane Andrew's landfall in South Florida. Part I: Standardizing measurements for documentation of surface wind fields

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 304-328

  Powell, Mark D ^a   Houston, Samuel H ^a   Reinhold, Timothy A ^b  

^a NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

^b Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; HURRICANES; WIND ENGINEERING; WIND FIELDS;

HAZARD MITIGATION; HURRICANE; HURRICANE ANDREW; NATURAL HAZARD; STORM TRACK; SURFACE WIND; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

USA, FLORIDA;

EID: 0030428591     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1996)011<0304:HALISF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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