Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30|[thinsp]|years

doi:doi:10.1038/nature03906

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Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years

Kerry Emanuel

Nature 436, 686-688(4 August 2005)

doi:10.1038/nature03906

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Supplementary Methods

This describes methods that were used to correct the raw hurricane wind speed data to account for changing measurement and estimation techniques over the years since airborne reconnaissance began in 1945.

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This shows the relationship between maximum wind speed and minimum sea level pressure in the raw hurricane data, in the data corrected by using a uniform wind-pressure relation, and a final correction.

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