Dependence of US hurricane economic loss on maximum wind speed and storm size

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Zhai, Alice R ^a   Jiang, Jonathan H ^b  

^a La Canada High School   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

economic loss; hurricane; storm size; wind speed

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; LOSSES; MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STORMS;

ECONOMIC LOSS; HURRICANE LOSS MODELS; LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; MAXIMUM WIND SPEED; POWER LAW RELATION; REGRESSION MODEL; STORM SIZES; WIND SPEED;

WIND;

ECONOMIC IMPACT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HURRICANE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; POWER LAW; SIZE; STORM; TEMPORAL PERIOD; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND VELOCITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84903641333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/6/064019     Document Type: Article

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