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Carvill Hurricane Index: a standalone construct

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Climate extremes

a hurricane index combining maximum sustained wind speed and the radius of hurricane-force winds to rate potential destructiveness.

In climate extremes, Carvill Hurricane Index refers to a hurricane index combining maximum sustained wind speed and the radius of hurricane-force winds to rate potential destructiveness. This meaning comes from Kantha (2006) in Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union.[1]

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References

Kantha, L. (2006). Time to replace the Saffir‐Simpson hurricane scale? Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 87(1), 3-6. https://doi.org/10.1029/2006eo010003

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