Importance of soil and elevation characteristics for modeling hurricane-induced power outages

Natural Hazards

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 365-390

  Quiring, Steven M ^a   Zhu, Laiyin ^a   Guikema, Seth D ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical power system; Elevation; Hurricane; Land use; Power outage; Regression trees; Soil

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL POWER; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; HURRICANE; LAND COVER; MODELING; NATURAL HAZARD; SOIL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; WIND FORCING;

EID: 79958785587     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9672-9     Document Type: Article

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