On the maximum observed wind speed in a randomly sampled hurricane

On the maximum observed wind speed in a randomly sampled hurricane

Solow, Andrew R.

Citable URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1912/3954

As published: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2009JCLI2803.1

Date: 2010-03-01

DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2803.1

Abstract:

There is considerable interest in detecting a long-term trend in hurricane intensity possibly related to large-scale ocean warming. This effort is complicated by the paucity of wind speed measurements for hurricanes occurring in the early part of the observational record. Here, results are presented regarding the maximum observed wind speed in a sparsely randomly sampled hurricane based on a model of the evolution of wind speed over the lifetime of a hurricane.

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Author Posting. © American Meteorological Society, 2010. This article is posted here by permission of American Meteorological Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Climate 23 (2010): 1262-1265, doi:10.1175/2009JCLI2803.1.

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