- Author
- Simiu, E.
- Title
- Prediction of Hurricane Wind Speeds in the United States.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
- Journal of Structural Engineering, 1549-1550, November 1997
- Keywords
- wind velocity | climatology | gust factors | hurricanes | structural engineering | 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.