Digital copies of Ted Fujita and Roger Wakimoto's hurricane landfall analyses now available
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 9/20/2016, 6:06 pm
"After the landfall of very strong hurricanes, NOAA contracted with Drs. Ted Fujita of the University of Chicago and Roger Wakimoto of the University of California Los Angeles to produce damage surveys of the affected areas.  With the help of Duane J. Stiegler, survey teams visited the devastated areas to assess the wind effects using aerial and ground surveying techniques originally developed by Dr. Fujita for tornados.  Dr. Fujita's original F scale was used to estimate the peak wind speeds.

These surveys were used to define the surface wind fields based on tree fall and structural damage because so few surface observations were available.  Once the analysis technique known as H*Wind became available in the early 1990s, these analyses were unnecessary and were discontinued after Hurricane Iniki."


https://noaahrd.wordpress.com/2016/09/19/digital-copies-of-ted-fujita-and-roger-wakimotos-hurricane-landfall-analyses-now-available/

"In the 1980s and 90s, Dr. Ted Fujita of the University of Chicago had a contract with NOAA to produce damage analyses of landfalling hurricanes. These analyses were printed as posters and made available to researchers. Below are scans of these posters. The red arrows indicate the direction of wind that caused visible debris and the length of the arrow the estimated strength of the wind on the Fujita scale. The are also contours with the estimated wind speed and the storm's track."

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/flyers/

Storms available:

1983 Alicia
1984 Diana
1985 Elena
1989 Hugo
1992 Andrew (and an explanation image)
1992 Iniki

They are very large images. The Andrew images, front and back, are 17mb total.
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