[Skywarn] Committee Members Sought for NEW ASCE/SEI Standard for Estimating Wind Speeds in Tornadoes and Other Windstorms

[Jay Cafasso]

Committee Members Sought for NEW ASCE/SEI Standard for Estimating Wind
Speeds in Tornadoes and Other Windstorms
BY  Staff
June 26, 2014
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ASCE is seeking members to serve on a committee for the development of a
national consensus standard on estimating wind speeds in tornadoes and
other windstorms. The intent of the standard is to develop standardized
methods for estimating the intensity of tornadoes and other severe wind
storms.

Users of the standard could include, but are not limited to, wind and
structural and forensic engineers, meteorologists, climatologists, forest
biologists, risk analysts, emergency managers, building and infrastructure
designers, and the media.

The content of the standard would include improvements to the existing
damage-based Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale to address known problems and
limitations, and incorporation of additional methods to estimate intensity
such as those based on radar measurements, tree fall pattern analysis, and
forensic engineering analysis, and archival of the data used for estimating
wind speeds.

Interested parties may submit an online standards committee application to
apply for participation. For more information, please contact James Neckel,
Codes and Standards Coordinator, at jneckel at asce.org.

http://blogs.asce.org/committee-members-sought-for-new-ascesei-standard-for-estimating-wind-speeds-in-tornadoes-and-other-windstorms/

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