Abstract
Observations of high-resolution wind speed data from two US Atlantic Coast hurricanes are used to compare several models for evaluating the effect a terrain change on the mean and gust wind speeds at 10 m height. The results indicate that these models tend to overestimate the increase in speed at 10 m height induced by a transition from a rougher to a smoother terrain. This is conservative for design purposes, but may be unnecessarily so.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 925-945 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2001 |
Keywords
- Full-scale measurements
- Mean and gust wind speeds
- Terrain changes
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Letchford, C., Gardner, A., Howard, R., & Schroeder, J. (2001). A comparison of wind prediction models for transitional flow regimes using full-scale hurricane data. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 89(10), 925-945. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-6105(01)00083-6