Tropical cyclone winds at landfall: The ASOS-C-MAN wind exposure documentation project

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 845-851

  Powell, Mark ^a   Bowman, David ^b   Gilhousen, David ^c   Murillo, Shirley ^a   Carrasco, Nick ^d   St Fleur, Russell ^d  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^c NOAA National Data Buoy Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HURRICANE EFFECTS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAPHY; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATIONS; TROPICAL CYCLONES; WIND EXPOSURE; WIND MEASUREMENTS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 3543106602     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-85-6-845     Document Type: Article

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