Risk of Strong Hurricane Winds to Florida Cities
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Extreme Hurricane Winds in the United States
Coastal hurricanes create tremendous environmental change and generate huge financial losses. The relative infrequency of severe coastal hurricanes implies that empirical probability estimates of the next big catastrophe will be unreliable. Here we model hurricane activity and resulting insured losses using extreme value theory and Bayesian models. The occurrence of a hurricane above a specifie...
متن کاملDeaths related to Hurricane Andrew in Florida and Louisiana, 1992.
BACKGROUND Information about circumstances leading to disaster-related deaths helps emergency response coordinators and other public health officials respond to the needs of disaster victims and develop policies for reducing the mortality and morbidity of future disasters. In this paper, we describe the decedent population, circumstances of death, and population-based mortality rates related to...
متن کاملSurface Winds at Landfall of Hurricane Andrew (1992)—A Reply
We appreciate this opportunity to (i) clarify the simulation of surface winds at landfall of Hurricane Andrew (1992) as reported in Liu et al. (1997, hereafter referred to as LZY); (ii) make more detailed comparisons with one of the most sophisticated surface analyses of a landfallen hurricane by Powell and Houston (1996, hereafter referred to as PH96); and (iii) present the simulated winds at ...
متن کاملObservation of Hurricane Winds Using Synthetic Aperture Radar
In the last five years several synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of hurricanes have been acquired by the Canadian satellite RADARSAT-1 as well as the European satellite ENVISAT. Several of these SAR images have captured hurricanes of category 4 and 5. These SAR data give the unique opportunity to investigate the possibilities of SAR data for observation and forecast of hurricanes. In this s...
متن کاملHurricane Katrina Winds Damaged Longleaf Pine Less than Loblolly Pine
Saucier-Susquehanna complex. Slope in this complex varies from 0 to 8%, but it was closer to 1–4% on the study site. Five treatments were established: (1) no cultivation or fertilization; (2) cultivated with no fertilization; (3) cultivated with a single application of 112 kg ha 1 of NPK fertilizer (type unknown); (4) cultivated with a single application of 224 kg ha 1 of NPK fertilizer; and (5...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1558-8432,1558-8424
DOI: 10.1175/2010jamc2420.1