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On the Classification of Hurricanes by Storm Tide and Wave Energy Indices

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Two indices for tagging hurricanes with respect to their capacity for producing storm tides and waves on a continental shelf are suggested. Application of these indices to the hurricane data of the United States since 1900 indicates that the logarithms of these indices possess nearly Gaussian distribution. This affords an approximate means of evaluating the average rate of occurrence of storms having a given level of intensity, defined by either the wave energy index or storm tide potential for a particular site. A rate of occurrence is computed for the northwestern Gulf of Mexico shelf area.

Contribution from the Department of Oceanography and Meteorology, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, Oceanography and Meteorology Series No. 92.

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  1. Department of Oceanography and Meteorology, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, College Station, Texas, USA

    Robert O. Reid (Associate Professor)

  2. Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, USA

    Robert O. Reid (Associate Professor)

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Reid, R.O. (1957). On the Classification of Hurricanes by Storm Tide and Wave Energy Indices. In: Interaction of Sea and Atmosphere. Meteorological Monographs, vol 2. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-940033-15-0_5

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