Extreme wind atlases of South Africa from global reanalysis data

6th European and African Conference on Wind Engineering, EACWE 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Larsén, Xiaoli Guo ^a   Kruger, Andries ^b   Badger, Jake ^a   Jørgensen, Hans E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EXTREME WINDS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; REANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; SURFACE WINDS; WIND MEASUREMENT;

WIND;

EID: 84923924791     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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