Wind field modeling and hurricane hazard analysis

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• Personal Author:
  Rosowsky, David V. ; Sparks, Peter R. ; Huang, Zhang
• Corporate Authors:
  South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium. ; Clemson University. Department of Civil Engineering.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  Sea Grant
• Sea Grant Program:
  SCSGC (South Carolina Sea Grant)
• Description:
  Hurricanes are one of the greatest natural hazards facing the United States. In recent years, windstorm catastrophes have caused enormous economic losses and placed tremendous burdens on the insurance industry. Despite significant improvements in predicting, tracking and warning the public about hurricanes, there has been relatively little progress in our ability to estimate expected hurricane losses. This research was conducted to evaluate the hurricane risks in the southeastern United States and provide better guidance to insurers, emergency managers and the public. Specifically, a GIS-based hurricane hazard assessment was conducted to provide information about expected wind conditions and associated damage to residential structures.
• Keywords:
  Analysis Architecture Economic Aspects Hazard Mitigation Hurricane Andrew, 1992 Hurricane Damage Hurricane Effects Hurricane Hugo, 1989 Hurricanes Insurance Mathematical Models Risk Assessment Simulation Methods Wind Damage Economic Aspects Hazard Mitigation Hurricane Damage Hurricane Effects Mathematical Models Risk Assessment Simulation Methods Wind Damage

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• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Non-series Report
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c472e947cdb94d469e8addd0cb7984b884ca0d8131eb9c4778e3acd4ad41808f3f1a66d75ae37ee812f08d80efca82190b7379f869eab8dd65e5b70ed2ae9d01
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/66781/noaa_66781_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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