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Martínez Latorre, Pablo Pérez Bartolomé, Isidro Alberto Sánchez Gómez, María Luisa García Pérez, María Ángeles Pardo Gómez, Nuria 2023-04-11T07:51:33Z 2023-04-11T07:51:33Z 2021 Atmosphere, 2021, Vol. 12, Nº. 11, 1480 2073-4433 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/59074 10.3390/atmos12111480 1480 11 Atmosphere 12 2073-4433 Producción Científica The database of the HWind project sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for hurricanes between 1994 and 2013 is analysed. This is the first objective of the current research. Among these hurricanes, Hurricane Sandy was selected for a detailed study due to the number of files available and its social relevance, with this being the second objective of this study. Robust wind speed statistics showed a sharp increase in wind speed, around 6 m s-1 at the initial stage as Category 1, and a linear progression of its interquartile range, which increased at a rate of 0.54 m s-1 per day. Wind speed distributions were initially right-skewed. However, they evolved to nearly symmetrical or even left-skewed distributions. Robust kurtosis was similar to that of the Gaussian distribution. Due to the noticeable fraction of wind speed intermediate values, the Laplace distribution was used, its scale parameter increasing slightly during the hurricane’s lifecycle. The key features of the current study were the surface and recirculation factor calculation. The surface area with a category equal to, or higher than, a tropical storm was calculated and assumed to be circular. Its radius increased linearly up to 600 km. Finally, parcel trajectories were spirals in the lower atmosphere but loops in the mid-troposphere due to wind translation and rotation. The recirculation factor varied, reaching values close to 0.9 and revealing atmospheric stratification. application/pdf eng MDPI info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ © 2021 The authors Atribución 4.0 Internacional Cyclones - Tropics Cyclones Hurricane Sandy, 2012 Vientos Wind statistics Wind field Huracanes Air parcel trajectory Recirculation factor Factor de recirculación 2502 Climatología Wind speed analysis of hurricane Sandy info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/12/11/1480 SI