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HIGH
WIND RISK AREAS
HURRICANE
WIND DECAY
The
pull down menus to the left allow you to display
examples of the Maximum Envelope Of Winds (MEOW).
There are three menus, one for each of the regions:
Gulf coast, East coast, and Northeast Coast. Click
on the desired hurricane strength and it will
link to the MEOW for hurricanes with various forward
speeds.
The
inland wind model was developed by Mark DeMaria
(NOAA/NWS/TPC) and John Kaplan (NOAA/AOML/HRD).
The model applies a simple two parameter decay
equation to the hurricance wind field at landfall
to estimate the maximum sustained surface wind
as a storm moves inland. This model can be used
for operational forecasting of the maximum winds
of landfalling tropical cyclones. It can also
be used to estimate the maximum inland penetration
of hurricane force winds (or any wind threshold)
for a given initial storm intensity and forward
storm motion. For further explanation refer to:
Kaplan,
J., DeMaria, M., 1995: A Simple Empirical Model
for Predicting the Decay of Tropical Cyclone Winds
After Landfall. J. App. Meteor., 34, No. 11, 2499-2512.
