A comparison of wind prediction models for transitional flow regimes using full-scale hurricane data

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 925-945

  Letchford, Chris ^a   Gardner, Anna ^a   Howard, Rob ^a   Schroeder, John ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Full scale measurements; Mean and gust wind speeds; Terrain changes

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; WIND EFFECTS;

WIND SPEED;

TRANSITION FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; HURRICANE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND GUST; WIND VELOCITY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; HURRICANE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND VELOCITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035418245     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6105(01)00083-6     Document Type: Article

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