- Author
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Simiu, E.
- Title
- Prediction of Hurricane Wind Speeds in the United States.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
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Journal of Structural Engineering,
1549-1550,
November 1997
- Keywords
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wind velocity
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climatology
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gust factors
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hurricanes
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structural engineering
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wind engineering
- Identifiers
- The comparisons presented by the authors in Fig. 5 between the hurricane fastes-mile wind speeds near the coastline estimated in their paper and those estimated in Batts et al. contain a basic inconsistency. The inconsistency stems from the fact that fatest-mile speeds are estimated by multiplying hourly mean speeds by a factor that accounts for the wind gustiness, and that different types of factors were used to obtain the authors' estimates and those of Batts et al.