Wind and Structures

Volume 4, Number 3, 2001, pages 197-212

DOI: 10.12989/was.2001.4.3.197

Towards a revised base wind speed map for the United Kingdom

Craig A. Miller, Niccholas J. Cook and Richard H. Barnard(U.K.)rn

Abstract

Observations of extreme wind speeds in the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1980, correctedrnfor the influence of upwind ground roughness and topography, have been analysed using the recently-developedrn

Key Words

extremes; design wind speed; exposure corrections; Method of Independent Storms.

Address

Craig A. Miller, Risk Management Solutions Ltd., 10 Eastcheap, London, EC3M 1AJ, U.K.rnNicholas J. Cook, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TR, U.K.rnRichard H. Barnard, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, Herts, AL10 9AB, U.K.