HURRECON: Modeling Hurricane Wind Speed, Direction, and Damage

Data

• HF025-01: Hurrecon program

Overview

• Lead: Emery Boose
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• Contact: Emery Boose
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• Research topic: informatics
• Study type: modeling
• LTER core area: disturbance
• Keywords: hurricane, meteorology, regional patterns, wind damage
• Release date: 1999
• EML version: knb-lter-hfr.25.8
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• Related links:
• Landscape and Regional Impacts of Hurricanes in New England
• Landscape and Regional Impacts of Hurricanes in Puerto Rico
• Reconstruction of 1938 Hurricane (New England) and Hurricane Hugo (Puerto Rico)
• Abstract:

  HURRECON is a simple meteorological model that estimates hurricane surface wind speed and direction based on the track, size, and intensity of a hurricane and the surface type (land or water). The model also estimates Fujita-scale wind damage as a function of peak 1/4 mile wind speed and wind gust factor. Estimates can be generated for a single site or a rectangular region. The model is based on published empirical studies of many hurricanes.

  HURRECON can be used to study the impacts of individual hurricanes or to reconstruct the hurricane disturbance regime for a particular region. For more information on the most recent version of the model please see the published paper (Boose, E. R., K. E. Chamberlin and D. R. Foster. 2001. Landscape and regional impacts of hurricanes in New England. Ecological Monographs 71: 27-48). Additional information is contained in the documentation that accompanies the program.

• Methods:

  Instructions for installing and using the HURRECON program are contained in the accompanying Readme file.

• Use:

  This dataset is released to the public and may be freely downloaded. Please keep the designated Contact person informed of any plans to use the dataset. Consultation or collaboration with the original investigators is strongly encouraged. Publications and data products that make use of the dataset must include proper acknowledgement. For more information on LTER Network data access and use policies, please see: http://www.lternet.edu/data/netpolicy.html.

• Citation:

  Boose E. 1999. HURRECON: Modeling Hurricane Wind Speed, Direction, and Damage. Harvard Forest Data Archive: HF025.

Detailed Metadata

HF025-01: Hurrecon program

• Compression: zip
• Format: Windows executable files and related files
• Type: software