storm_winds: Modeled county wind speeds for historical storms

In geanders/hurricaneexposuredata: Data Characterizing Exposure to Hurricanes in United States Counties

Modeled county wind speeds for historical storms

Description

A dataframe with modeled winds for historical tropical storms in the Atlantic basin for U.S. counties from 1988 to 2018. For each county, the given wind speed is that modeled at the county's population mean center (based on the 2010 U.S. Census).

Usage

storm_winds

Format

A dataframe with 409,716 rows and 6 variables:

fips

County's 5-digit Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code

vmax_gust

Maximum modeled gust wind speed in the county during the storm.

vmax_sust

Maximum modeled sustained wind speed in the county during the storm.

gust_dur

Time gust wind was above 20 m / s in the county during the storm.

sust_dur

Time sustained wind was above 20 m / s in the county during the storm.

storm_id

Unique storm identifier with the storm name and year, separated by a hyphen (e.g., "Alberto-1988", "Katrina-2005"). Some storms are "Unnamed" or have other generic names. In these cases, it may be preferable to identify the storm using the ATCF ID (usa_atcf_id) rather than the storm ID.

usa_atcf_id

Character string with the Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecasting System ID for the storm.

Note

These wind speeds were modeled from hurricane best tracks data using the stormwindmodel package to implement the Willoughby wind model. See the "Details" vignette from that package (available at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/stormwindmodel/vignettes/Details.html) for extensive details on this modeling process.

Author(s)

Brooke Anderson [e-mail], Andrea Schumacher [e-mail], Joshua Ferreri [e-mail], Seth Guikema [e-mail], and Steven Quiring [e-mail]

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