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A proposed new scale to identify the category of a Hurricane’s status

✍ Scribed by R.D. Wooten; C.P. Tsokos

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
371 KB
Volume
71
Category
Article
ISSN
0362-546X

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✦ Synopsis

The present study is concerned with the relationship between wind speeds in a hurricane and the pressure or depression. We propose a new index for categorizing hurricane force winds. Our method is developed utilizing statistical procedures and modeling with molecular physics. Our results are compared with the commonly used Saffir-Simpson scale.

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