Wired

An Estimation of the Wind Speed Inside a Tornado

Here is a video from the recent devastating tornado that passed through the Dallas area. The request was to find out how high these trailers went. I think a better question is to use the flying ...
Wired

Estimate the Energy of an Utterly Massive Wind Turbine

It's amazing that we can get electrical power just from the wind, but that's exactly what happens with a wind farm. It's a collection of wind turbines in a particular location with abundant wind. And ...
JSTOR Daily

Weibull parameters estimation using combined energy pattern and power density method for wind resource assessment

Muhammad Sumair, Tauseef Aized, Syed Asad Raza Gardezi, Muhammad Mahmood Aslam Bhutta, Syed Ubaid ur Rehman, Syed Muhammad Sohail Rehman Energy Exploration & Exploitation, Vol. 39, No. 5 (September ...
Purdue University

We should use central pressure deficit, not wind speed, to predict hurricane damage

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The system for categorizing hurricanes accounts only for peak wind speeds, but research published in Nature Communications explains why central pressure deficit is a better ...