The Florida Coastal Monitoring Program (FCMP): A review

Balderrama, Juan-Antonio; Masters, Forrest J.; Gurley, Kurtis R.; Prevatt, David O.; Aponte-Bermúdez, Luis D.; Reinhold, Timothy A.; Pinelli, Jean‐Paul; Subramanian, Chelakara; Schiff, Scott; Chowdhury, Arindam

doi:10.1016/j.jweia.2011.07.002

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“…Measurements during the passage of three hurricanes (Katrina, Rita and Wilma in 2005) were made by portable instrumented towers of the Florida Coastal Monitoring Program (FCMP) (Balderrama et al, 2011). Detailed descriptions of the instruments and the terrain conditions are available in Masters et al (2010).…”

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“…To better understand turbulence mechanisms and flow structure characteristics in tropical cyclones, a number of field monitoring programs have been initiated in hurricane-prone areas, e.g., FCMP (Balderrama et al, 2011), WEMITE (Schroeder and Smith, 2003) and Stick-Net (Weiss and Schroeder, 2008). In China, a large number of wind observation towers and stations have been recently installed along the coastline of South China, where typhoons hit frequently each year, to quantify nearsurface typhoon wind characteristics and the mechanism of typhoon wind induced loads on civil structures (Li et al, 2011a(Li et al, , 2011bSong et al, 2012).…”

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A comparative study of field measurements of the turbulence characteristics of typhoon and hurricane winds

Kareem

Xiao

et al. 2015

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

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A comparative study of field measurements of the turbulence characteristics of typhoon and hurricane winds

Kareem

Xiao

et al. 2015

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

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“…Although the building was instrumented with four load cells only overall results integrated for all strain gages were reported. Other field monitoring projects include the Southern Shores Project (Caracoglia and Jones, 2009) and the Florida Coastal Monitoring Program (Balderrama et al, 2011). Most recent experimental efforts have been carried out on either full-or large-scale structures in a laboratory environment.…”

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Wind load transfer mechanisms on a low wood building using full-scale load data

Zisis

Stathopoulos

2012

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

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a b s t r a c tThe wind-induced response of low-rise wood buildings has been evaluated by monitoring a specially instrumented test building exposed to real wind action. The field facilities included a state-of-the-art data acquisition system which collected wind, pressure and force data. In addition to the field monitoring, a 1:200 scaled model of the test building was tested in the wind tunnel and the envelope wind pressures were estimated for various terrain exposures. The wind-induced pressures obtained from both the full-scale and wind tunnel experiments were incorporated in the finite element model of the test building and its response was numerically derived.Vast amounts of experimental data were generated during the long-term monitoring of the test building. These data were used to successfully verify the simulation approaches in terms of both wind-induced pressures and structural forces. Some limited discrepancies were observed in the peak pressure coefficients for locations close to the roof ridge and corners. The field acquired force data revealed that the majority of the wind uplift force is supported by the two side walls. Moreover, it was experimentally verified that the wind-induced load was attenuated as it was transferred through the buildings' structural system. This attenuation was estimated to be at least 17%, as far as the total foundation uplift force is concerned, and reached the 28% for certain approaching wind directions.

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“…Five hurricane wind data sets were provided by Florida Coastal Monitoring Program (FCMP) (Balderrama et al, 2011), for hurricanes: Isabel-2003;Ivan-2004;Katrina-2005;Rita-2005;and Wilma-2005. Details of this hurricane measurement project are given in Masters (2004).…”

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