HURRECON Model for Estimating Hurricane Wind Speed, Direction, and Damage (R and Python)

The HURRECON model estimates wind speed, wind direction, enhanced Fujita scale wind damage, and duration of EF0 to EF5 winds as a function of hurricane location and maximum sustained wind speed. Results may be generated for a single site or an entire region. Hurricane track and intensity data may be imported directly from the US National Hurricane Center's HURDAT2 database. HURRECON is available in R and Python. The R version is available on CRAN as HurreconR. The model is an updated version of the original HURRECON model written in Borland Pascal for use with Idrisi (see HF025). New features include support for: (1) estimating wind damage on the enhanced Fujita scale, (2) importing hurricane track and intensity data directly from HURDAT2, (3) creating a land-water file with user-selected geographic coordinates and spatial resolution, and (4) creating plots of site and regional results. The model equations for estimating wind speed and direction, including parameter values for inflow angle, friction factor, and wind gust factor (over land and water), are unchanged from the original HURRECON model. For more details and sample datasets, see the project website on GitHub (https://github.com/hurrecon-model).