Storm outage modeling for an electric distribution network in Northeastern USA

Natural Hazards

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1359-1384

  Wanik, D W ^a   Anagnostou, E N ^a   Hartman, B M ^a   Frediani, M E B ^a   Astitha, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical infrastructure; Electric distribution network; Hurricanes; Land cover; Machine learning; Numerical weather prediction; Outage

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; HURRICANE; LAND COVER; MACHINE LEARNING; MODELING; STORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CONNECTICUT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84943816400     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-1908-2     Document Type: Article

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