Topographic speed-up effects and observed roof damage on Bermuda following Hurricane Fabian (2003)

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 159-174

  Miller, Craig ^a   Gibbons, Michael ^a   Beatty, Kyle ^b   Boissonnade, Auguste ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Risk Management Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HURRICANE RESEARCH; LINEARIZED MODELS; MEAN WIND SPEED; ROUGHNESS CHANGE; SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS CHANGES; SURFACE WINDS; WIND ANALYSIS;

HURRICANE EFFECTS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

WIND EFFECTS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DAMAGE; HURRICANE EVENT; ROOF; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

BERMUDA;

FABIA;

EID: 84874835372     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-12-00050.1     Document Type: Article

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