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The Oxford Handbook of Non-Synoptic Wind Storms.

Contributor(s): Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021Description: xvii, 626 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780190670252
  • 0190670258
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Oxford handbook of non-synoptic wind storms hazards.DDC classification:
  • 551.55 23
LOC classification:
  • QC942 .O94 2021
Contents:
Introduction : Non-synoptic wind storms (NSWS) -- In situ data acquisition for NSWS -- Modeling methods for NSWS -- Structural and others impacts of NSWS -- Risk models related to NSWS -- Reduction of exposure to NSWS -- Conclusion.
Awards:
  • ASLI Choice Award
Summary: "Wind storms impact human lives, their built as well as natural habitat. During the last century, society's vulnerability to wind storms has been reduced by enhanced knowledge of their impact and by controlling exposure through better design. However, only two of the wind systems have so far been considered in the design of buildings and structures, i.e., synoptic winds resulting from macroscale weather systems spanning thousands of kilometers, e.g., extratropical storms, and mesoscale tropical storms spanning hundreds of kilometers and traveling fast, e.g., hurricanes/typhoons/cyclones. During the last two decades, enough evidence has surfaced to support that a third type of very localized wind storms, the non-synoptic winds, are the most damaging in some regions of the world. Thus far there are no design provisions established for the codification of these wind storms. Their characterization in terms of climatology, wind field and intensity, frequency and occurrence, as well as their impact on the built environment, is slowly developing. This handbook presents the state-of-the-art of knowledge related to all these features including their risk, insurance issues, and economics. The research in this area is on the one hand more arduous given the reduced scale, the three-dimensionality, and nonstationary aspects of these non-synoptic winds while, at the same time, its understanding and modeling are being aided by the emergence of novel modeling and simulation techniques which are addressed in this handbook. This will serve as a guiding resource for those interested in learning about and contributing to the advancement of the field"-- Provided by publisher.
List(s) this item appears in: 2023 New Titles
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QC942 .O94 2021 1 Available 50583020018846
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Non-synoptic wind storms (NSWS) -- In situ data acquisition for NSWS -- Modeling methods for NSWS -- Structural and others impacts of NSWS -- Risk models related to NSWS -- Reduction of exposure to NSWS -- Conclusion.

"Wind storms impact human lives, their built as well as natural habitat. During the last century, society's vulnerability to wind storms has been reduced by enhanced knowledge of their impact and by controlling exposure through better design. However, only two of the wind systems have so far been considered in the design of buildings and structures, i.e., synoptic winds resulting from macroscale weather systems spanning thousands of kilometers, e.g., extratropical storms, and mesoscale tropical storms spanning hundreds of kilometers and traveling fast, e.g., hurricanes/typhoons/cyclones. During the last two decades, enough evidence has surfaced to support that a third type of very localized wind storms, the non-synoptic winds, are the most damaging in some regions of the world. Thus far there are no design provisions established for the codification of these wind storms. Their characterization in terms of climatology, wind field and intensity, frequency and occurrence, as well as their impact on the built environment, is slowly developing. This handbook presents the state-of-the-art of knowledge related to all these features including their risk, insurance issues, and economics. The research in this area is on the one hand more arduous given the reduced scale, the three-dimensionality, and nonstationary aspects of these non-synoptic winds while, at the same time, its understanding and modeling are being aided by the emergence of novel modeling and simulation techniques which are addressed in this handbook. This will serve as a guiding resource for those interested in learning about and contributing to the advancement of the field"-- Provided by publisher.

ASLI Choice Award

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