Download or read book Estimating the Risk of High Winds from Tropical Cyclones in North Carolina written by Brian F. Naess and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North Carolina Hurricanes written by Albert Victor Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Estimating Maximum Wind Speed of Tropical Storms from High Resolution of Infrared Data written by Lester F. Hubert and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Risk Assessment of North Carolina Tropical Cyclones 1925 2000 written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous tropical cyclone risk assessment studies have been national in scope. This study demonstrates the need for regional risk assessments, using the tropical cyclone history of North Carolina as an example. The standard normalization procedure for historical damage data was reevaluated. A housing factor was used instead of the more conventional population factor to go along with inflation and changes in wealth. For coastal counties in North Carolina, housing figures from 1940-2000 increased 780% while population figures increased only 370%. It is believed that use of housing data in lieu of population data in the normalization procedure provides a more realistic measure of impact. Using the new normalization method, 1954-55 tropical cyclone storm totals in North Carolina added together would have caused over $18 billion in damage (expressed in 2000 dollars). By comparison, the destructive period from 1996 to 1999 in North Carolina added up to $13 billion. Storm damage totals were separated into damages caused by wind, flooding, and storm surge. For all 36 direct landfalling tropical cyclones in North Carolina from 1925-2000, flooding caused approximately 40% of all damages, while wind and storm surge caused an estimated 35% and 25%, respectively. From these results, it is clear that flooding produced relatively greater damage in North Carolina compared to the United States in general. Rainfall was correlated to meteorological parameters of tropical cyclones making landfall in North Carolina. There was a weak relationship between intensity of the tropical cyclone and maximum rainfall totals. There was a stronger relationship between rainfall and translation speed. For those tropical cyclones that did not directly interact with synoptic-scale features such as upper-level troughs, lows, or surface fronts, the relationship between rainfall and translation speed can be expressed by the equation Y=29.529X-0.6134 where Y is the average of the five highest recorded rain.
Download or read book Risk Assessment of North Carolina Tropical Cyclones 1925 2000 written by Douglas Clarence Hilderbrand and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keywords: hurricanes, damage, flooding, wind, storm surge, rainfall, North Carolina, tropical cyclone.
Download or read book Climatological Data written by United States. Weather Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climatological Data written by United States. Environmental Data Service and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surface Wind Analyses and Storm surge Effects of Hurricane Emily on the Outer Banks of North Carolina written by Andrew W. Garcia and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climatological Data written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lists of North Carolina Hurricanes written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Hurricanes of North Carolina written by John Hairr and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-09 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the horrific Independence Hurricane of 1775, the most lethal storm to strike its coast, to the ruinous Hugo in September 1989, a path has been cut along the shores of the Tarheel State-a path not easily forgotten. Engagingly written and illustrated with historical photos that graphically depict the disastrous effects of these mighty storms, this book is a gripping read!
Download or read book Storms People and Property in Coastal North Carolina written by Simon Baker and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climatological Data National Summary written by United States. Weather Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climatological Data for the United States by Sections written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of the monthly climatological reports of the United States by state or region, with monthly and annual national summaries.
Download or read book Storm Tide Frequency Analysis for the Coast of North Carolina North of Cape Lookout written by Francis P. Ho and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Estimating Return Periods of Extreme Tropical Cyclone Winds Accounting for Effective Surface Roughness at High Resolution written by Robert Walker Whitfield and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, tropical cyclones (TCs) were the leading cause of natural disaster-related fatalities and Consumer Price Index (CPI)-adjusted costs averaged over the years 1980-2017. Accurately assessing TC-induced extreme winds is crucial to proper risk management related to mitigation of these losses. Several studies attempt to calculate return periods (TRP), or the statistically estimated average time between events of a given magnitude, for extreme TC winds at point locations or along coastlines. This study seeks to further previous work by addressing concerns related to spatial and temporal resolutions, in addition to the consideration of TC winds as a function of surface roughness and fetch over land. We begin by analyzing HURDAT BestTrack Extended (1988-2017) data (EBTRK) at 0.25-degree (~27 km) resolution, assigning a maximum observed windspeed value per grid cell per year, to which several extreme value distributions (EVDs) are fit to the probability distribution function (PDF). The Generalized Pareto Distribution (GPD) is found to have the best fit to the EBTRK data, where fitting parameters are calculated based on these observations using the method of moments. We find the EBTRK dataset, while more continuous and higher resolution than previous assessments, lacks sufficient observations for proper fit to an EVD and it appears to not fully consider the effect of surface roughness on TC wind speed, likely because of great limitations on spatial information in the data set. To address these issues, we use 59,000 years of modeled TC winds produced by the Florida Public Loss Hurricane Model (FPLHM), which considers the effects of effective surface roughness on upstream winds on a fine scale (~90m), output at locations of interest roughly every kilometer. The study domain is narrowed down to the Tampa/Clearwater area of Florida for its various terrain and coastline features, from which six locations of varying terrain/coastline proximity are chosen. We reimplement the EVD fitting procedure to the FPLHM data, again finding the GPD to be the best fit, and extrapolating out TRP values for the most extreme TC winds at each location. Empirically calculated TRP values are also plotted for the entire domain to gain a sense of those associated patterns. We find TRP and subsequent expected winds can vary dramatically depending on effective surface roughness over distances at least as short as ~1 km (the finest resolution of the saved modeled data), while distance inland independent of TC weakening plays a lesser of a role after the first few kilometers. The results indicate a need for more accurate future TRP analyses that are both at a fine scale and incorporate effective surface roughness, which also points to the weakness in using historical data in areas with recent changes in land use.
Download or read book Storm Tide Frequencies on the South Carolina Coast written by Vance A. Myers and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
