Timothy A. Reinhold

TL;DR: It is found that surface momentum flux levels off as the wind speeds increase above hurricane force, contrary to surface flux parameterizations that are currently used in a variety of modelling applications, including hurricane risk assessment and prediction of storm motion, intensity, waves and storm surges.

TL;DR: In this article, a set of procedures were used to represent the various types of wind measurements in a common framework for exposure, measurement height, and averaging period, and the procedures are accurate to ±10% for marine and land observing platforms, and boundary layer model adjustments of flight-level winds to the surface compare to within 20% of the nearest surface measurements.

TL;DR: In this paper, a wind destructive potential rating was constructed by weighting wind speed threshold contributions to the integrated kinetic energy, based on observed damage in Hurricanes Andrew, Hugo, and Opal.

TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of insurance claim files from Hurricanes Hugo and Andrew has revealed that most wind damage to houses is restricted to the envelope of the building, which causes the insurance loss to be magnified by a factor ranging from two, at lower wind speeds, to nine at higher speeds.

TL;DR: In this article, a comparison of the full scale pressure coefficients from one of these homes, which experienced sustained hurricane force winds, with the results of wind tunnel experiments on a 1:50 scale model of that home was performed.