Tropicalcyclonewindradiiestimationusinganempirical.pptVIP

Background An empirical decay model Kaplan and DeMaria 1995, 2001 has been used to predict the decrease in wind speed of landfalling tropical cyclones. The model assumes that a cyclone’s maximum winds decrease exponentially with time after landfall to a non-zero background wind speed using: where Vt the maximum wind at some time t after landfall, V0 is the landfall wind speed, Vb is the background wind speed and is the decay constant. DeMaria et al. 2006 recently developed a revised version of the original Kaplan and DeMaria decay model that improves the prediction for storms that c