Model Tropical Cyclone Wind Speeds


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Documentation for package ‘stormwindmodel’ version 0.1.4

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add_forward_speed Adds forward speed component to modeled surface wind
add_inflow Add inflow angle
add_storm_track Plot Atlantic basin hurricane tracks
add_wind_radii Add Willoughby inputs and parameters
calc_and_summarize_grid_wind Calculate and summarize grid winds
calc_bearing Calculate bearing from one location to another
calc_forward_speed Calculate storm's forward speed
calc_gradient_speed Convert symmetric surface wind to gradient wind.
calc_grid_wind Calculate wind speed at grid points
calc_R1 Calculate radius to start of transition region
check_over_land Determine if storm is over land or water
county_points Eastern U.S. county latitude and longitudes
create_full_track Impute hurricane tracks to finer time scale
degrees_to_radians Convert from degrees to radians
floyd_tracks Hurricane Floyd tracks data
get_grid_winds Determine hurricane winds at locations
gradient_to_surface Calculate surface wind speed from gradient
interp_track Interpolate a storm track
katrina_tracks Hurricane Katrina tracks data
landmask Land-sea mask
latlon_to_km Calculate distance between two locations
map_wind Map wind exposure at the county level
radians_to_degrees Convert from radians to degrees
remove_forward_speed Remove forward speed from maximum wind speed
solve_for_xi Numerically solve Willoughby Eqn. 3 for xi
summarize_grid_wind Generate wind summaries for grid point
will1 Model wind speed at a grid point for a storm track observation
will10a Calculate X1 for Willoughby model
will10b Calculate n for the Willoughby model
will10c Calculate A for Willoughby model
will1a Willoughby et al. (2006), Equation 1(a)
will2 Willoughby et al. (2006), Equation 2
will3_deriv_func Calculate the function value and derivative for Willoughby Eqn. 3
will3_right Calculate right-hand side of Willoughby Eqn. 3
will7a Calculate radius of maximum winds