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A Climatology of High-Wind Events Associated with Post-Tropical Cyclones in the United States
… from the National Hurricane Center’s HURDAT dataset. Mean wind radii buffers were calculated and used to determine the high-wind observations attributed by PTCs. High-wind climatology was developed by using hourly surface wind data from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and …
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Estimating Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclone Landfall Probability for the United States
This dissertation examines the historical record of hurricanes and tropical storms in the Atlantic Basin to determine the eventual landfall probability for the United States coastline based on the complete tracks of the storms. A spatial dimension is added so that the entire basin is evaluated to …