- Author
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Marshall, R. D.
- Title
- Some Notable Hurricanes Revisited.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Structures Congress. April 1992,
San Antonio, TX,
250-253 p.,
1992
- Keywords
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hurricanes
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field measurements
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gust factors
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disasters
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structural engineering
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tropical cyclones
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wind damage
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wind engineering
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wind velocity
- Abstract
- Recorded hurricane wind speeds, uncorrected for instrument height, averaging time or local wind exposure, can be very misleading. This is particularly true when such records are used to assess the performance of structures exposed to extreme winds. Only when proper corrections are applied can the true distribution of surface wind speeds in a hurricane be ascertained. Recent improvements to adjustment procedures and resulting corrections to wind speed records from some notable hurricanes are described.