Directional characteristics of potentially damaging wind gusts in the Southeast United States

Physical Geography

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 155-169

  Martin, Jeff ^a   Konrad, Charles ^b  

^a JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Gusts; Southeast; Wind climatology; Wind damage

Indexed keywords

GUST; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; STORM DAMAGE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750371020     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.27.2.155     Document Type: Article

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