Risk of strong hurricane winds to Florida cities

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2121-2132

  Malmstadt, Jill C ^a   Elsner, James B ^a   Jagger, Thomas H ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FLORIDA; HURRICANE RISK; MAJOR CITIES; STRONG WINDS; WIND SPEED; WINDS BLOWING;

RISK PERCEPTION; WIND;

HURRICANES;

HURRICANE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; MIAMI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77958501185     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2420.1     Document Type: Article

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