Engineering Applications of the Newly Available Roughness-Length Measurements by AOML at 213 ASOS Stations
Keywords:
roughness length; hurricanes; asos stations, turbulence intensity; power-law exponent; gust factor; peak factor
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Most recently, the Hurricane Research Division of the U. S. Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) has made extensive surveys of the roughness length (Zo) in each of the 213 Automated Surface Observation Stations (ASOS) located in tropical-cyclone prone regions. The original 8 values of Zo for each of the 45 degree segments within the 360 degree compass in each ASOS station are averaged geometrically to obtain one typical value for each of these 213 ASOS stations. Six ASOS stations are verified independently by the gust factor method during 5 hurricanes. Since the difference is within the 10 % composite accuracy for field measurements in wind speed, the computed geometric mean Zo values for each of the 213 ASOS stations are recommended for practical use. Applications of the proposed geometric mean Zo value to estimate the 3-second gust, peak gust, and peak factor during Hurricane Katrina are also provided for engineers as an example.
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2013-03-15
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