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The extreme wind climate of Australia is discussed with a description of the available historical data recorded by the Bureau of Meteorology. The necessity of correction of gusts for gust duration, and for terrain, and for separating the data into storm type is outlined. The ‘bootstrapping’ technique for assessing sampling errors and confidence limits is also discussed. As examples of the methods discussed, recent data from three locations in South Australia were processed. These illustrated the mixed climate near the southern coastline, and the dominance of non-synoptic downdraft winds at a northern station far from the coast.
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Some of the work described in this paper was partly funded by ElectraNet Pty. Ltd, Adelaide, South Australia. This work was carried out in collaboration with Stephen Oliver of Weather Solutions Pty. Ltd. and Chi-Hsiang Wang of CSIRO, who contributed several of the ideas outlined in this paper.
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Holmes, J.D. (2019). Extreme Wind Prediction – The Australian Experience. In: Ricciardelli, F., Avossa, A. (eds) Proceedings of the XV Conference of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering. IN VENTO 2018. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 27. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12815-9_29
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