Since I don't know much about "IKE" I looked it up and decided to post the information.
Tropical cyclone damage potential, as currently defined by the Saffir-Simpson scale and the maximum sustained surface wind speed in the storm, fails to consider the area impact of winds likely to force surge and waves or cause particular levels of damage. Integrated kinetic energy represents a framework that captures the physical process of ocean surface stress forcing waves and surge while also taking into account structural wind loading and the spatial coverage of the wind.
Integrated kinetic energy is computed from gridded, objectively analyzed surface wind fields of hurricanes now available in near real-time from the H*Wind web page
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/data_sub/wind.html
A wind destructive potential rating is constructed by weighting wind speed threshold contributions to the integrated kinetic energy, based on observed damage in Hurricanes Andrew, Hugo, and Opal. A combined storm surge and wave destructive potential rating was assigned according to the integrated kinetic energy contributed by winds greater than tropical storm force. The ratings are based on the familiar 1-5 range, with continuous fits to allow for storms as weak as 0.1 or as strong as 5.99.
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/ike/
Alternative Metrics of Tropical Cyclone Impact
Publications and Presentations:
Powell, M. D. and T. A. Reinhold, 2009: New Scales for the Destructive Potential of Tropical Cyclones The paper will be presented at the U.S.-Japan Task Committee Conference on wind engineering.
Powell, Mark D., Eric Uhlhorn, and Jeffrey D. Kepert, 2008 : "Estimating Maximum DSurface Winds from Hurricane Reconnaissance Measurements", Wea. Forecasting,(in press)
Powell, M. D. and T. A. Reinhold, 2007: Tropical cyclone destructive potential by integrated kinetic energy. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 87, 513-526.
Robert Simpson and Herbert Saffir, 2007: Comments on "Tropical Cyclone Destructive Potential by Integrated Kinetic Energy". BAMS, 88, Issue 11 (November 2007) pp. 1799-1800
Powell, M. D. and T. A. Reinhold, 2007: Response to comment by R. Simpson and H. Saffir on "Tropical cyclone destructive potential by integrated kinetic energy". BAMS, 88, 1800-1801.
Lakshmi Kantha, 2008: Comments "Tropical Cyclone Destructive Potential by Integrated Kinetic Energy". BAMS, 89, Issue 2 (February 2008) pp. 219-221
Powell, M. D. and T. A. Reinhold, 2008: Response to comment by L. Kantha on "Tropical cyclone destructive potential by integrated kinetic energy". BAMS, 89, in press.
S. A. Hsu, Brian W. Blanchard, 2007: Comments on "Tropical Cyclone Destructive Potential by Integrated Kinetic Energy" by Powell and Reinhold, 2008 early online release, posted April 2008
Powell, M. D. and T. A. Reinhold, 2008: Response to comment by S. A. Hsu and B. W. Blanchard on "Tropical cyclone destructive potential by integrated kinetic energy". BAMS, 89, submitted.
IKE Calculator: See how IKE varies as the wind radii and max wind speeds vary
IKE time series and forecasts: Under construction Latest evaluation results: Changes in IKE relationships after testing during the 2007 Hurricane season H*Wind archive:
H*Wind archive(note IKE calculations are only available starting in 2007)
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