Beyond wind speed—A new measure for predicting hurricane impacts
December 5, 2017 by Anne Manning
Six major hurricanes that engulfed the Atlantic Basin in 2017 were a devastating reminder of the vulnerability of coastal communities, where more than half the U.S. population resides.
What if there was a better way to forecast and communicate these storms' damaging economic impacts, before they happen?
Colorado State University civil engineers have developed an innovative new approach to assessing the resiliency of coastal communities to hurricanes. They've created a "multi-hazard hurricane impact level model," which estimates economic damages to be caused by storms, before they happen.
Read more at:
https://phys.org/news/2017-12-speeda-hurricane-impacts.html#jCp
