The fifth journal paper in the framework of the PROTEECT project has been published on Journal of Wind Engineering &Industrial Aerodynamics by Elsevier.
This study is the first effort to map the extreme wind speeds at the lower bound of the meso-gamma scale resolution over the whole Italian territory by taking advantage of Reanalysis climate models. The performances of Reanalysis models are critically compared with measurements. Mesoscale maps of mean and extreme wind speeds with 2, 50, 100, and 200-year return periods are given. Finally, a new engineering approach to the definition of the design wind speed is proposed. This study suggests that mesoscale wind maps are a promising tool for engineers and designers, provided that a correction factor covering modelling approximations is applied.
The study was carried out in the framework of the GeoWindy R&D group (https://geowindy.polito.it) at the Department of Architecture and Design – Politecnico di Torino.
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