eliminating_coasts

Nice, after some googling, I like IKE, something satisfying in measuring storms in trillions of joules.

Are you asking about a different way to measure the wind, or are you talking about the overall damage potential of a storm?

More the first one; I was just imagining like seismologists get to describe earthquakes on a rigorous scale tied to the energy of an earthquake, that doesn't tell you much about how much damage it'll do, but they can get the answer out really quickly because it's specific to the dynamics of the earthquake itself.

Whereas it seems like if you have this great moving mass of wind, you probably know all kinds of things about it overall that you could report accurately quickly, before you know precisely what it's going to do when it hits land.

I'm imagining some kind of mean angular momentum or energy measure or something, so we can say "that's a big hurricane" in some natural way.

Could we make your lives easier by using some different measure of intensity, like mean velocity or something?

How do you go about building a model of a hurricane? Do you have some kind of cube by cube wind speed model, or are there kind of overall measures of storm specific variables you analyse?

Interesting thanks!