Synthetic hurricane wind speed records: Development of a database for hazard analyses and risk studies

Natural Hazards Review

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 23-34

  Lee, Kyung Ho ^a,b   Rosowsky, David V ^b  

^a SGT INC   (United States)

^b Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Databases; Hazards; Hurricanes; Probability; Risk analysis; Simulation; Statistics; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

HAZARD ANALYSIS; STORM FORMATION; WIND SPEED;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HAZARDS; PROBABILITY; RISK ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIND EFFECTS;

HURRICANES;

DATABASE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HURRICANE; RECORD; RISK ASSESSMENT; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 34247234082     PISSN: 15276988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1527-6988(2007)8:2(23)     Document Type: Article

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