Development of a regional map of extreme wind speeds in the Philippines

• Main Authors: Garciano, Lessandro Estelito, Hoshiya, Masaru, Maruyama, Osamu
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2005
• Subjects: Winds—Speed—Philippines; Winds—Speed—Philippines—Measurement; Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/6029
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper presents an improvement of the current wind zone map of the Philippines. The Generalized Extreme Value (GEV), Gumbel and point process models were used in characterizing the extreme wind speeds in the Philippines. Available daily maximum wind data from 50 stations in the Philippines were...