Hurricane loss estimation models: Opportunities for improving the state of the art

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1713-1726

  Watson Jr , Charles C ^a   Johnson, Mark E ^b  

^a Kinetic Analysis Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WIND;

HURRICANE LOSS MODELS; WIND MODELS;

HURRICANES;

EID: 3042537466     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-85-11-1713     Document Type: Article

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