Extreme Wind Speeds Software: Fortran Code for Hurricane Data Sets

We provide a pre-compiled executable for Windows 2000/XP platforms. You can compile this code yourself for other platforms if you have a Fortran-77/90/95 compiler available.

If you have a Fortran-77/90/95 compiler, you can modify this code with minimal effort to analyze other data sets.

1. xxx.out

   This file contains a table for each value of the threshold parameter. This table contains:

   • The DeHaan estimates for the shape and scale parameters of the generalized Pareto distribution.

   • The wind speeds corresponding to mean return intervals of 50, 2000, 10000, and 100000 years.

   • The maximum wind speed for the fitted distribution.

   • Load factors corresponding to each of the mean return intervals.

2. xxxx.ldf

   For each value of the threshold, the following values are written to the file:

   • the threshold value
   • the number of values above the threshold
   • the estimate of the shape parameter
   • the estimate of the standard deviation of the shape parameter
   • the wind speeds corresponding to each of the return intervals (4 values)
   • the maximum possible wind speed
   • the load factors corresponding to each of the return intevals (4 values)

   This file is provided to make it convenient to read the values into another program for further analysis (e.g., a program for plotting the data).

For the sake of discussion, let us assume that you have created the directory "C:\HURRLDF" and that you have copied the data file "file10.txt" (which contains the data for mile post 550) and the program executable "HURRLDF.EXE" to this directory.

To run the program:

1. Open a command prompt window.

2. Enter
   HURRLDF.EXE

3. When you are prompted for the input file name, enter
   FILE10.TXT

1. file10.ldf
2. file10.out

These files can be viewed using Notepad (or any other suitable editor).

For non-Windows platforms, the instructions are similar. Just open a terminal window, initiate the program, and enter the desired data file.

• hurrldf.f source file
• hurrldf.exe executable file for the Windows 2000/XP operating systems.

Note that we have modified the code from the version that was previously available on the NIST ftp site. The output generated from the program is the same. However, the program was rewritten to be easier to adapt to other data sets.

The program contains the following subroutines.

• hurrldf

  This is the driver program. Although you should not need to modify the basic structure of this routine, you may want to tweak a few things. For example, you can modify the number of iterations for the threshold or the values for the mean reccurrence intervals.

• getdat

  This routine reads the input data file. This routine will need to be modified if you are reading something other than the hurricane data sets provided on this web site.

• dehaan

  This routine generates the DeHaan estimates.

• openfi

  This routine opens the input/output files.

• sort

  This subroutine performs a sort of the data using the QuickSort algorithm. Although you can replace this with your own sort routine, this is an excellent sort algorithm and there is little to be gained by replacing it.

1. Modify the GETDAT routine to read your own data files.
2. Check the HURRLDF routine to set the desired threshold iterations and recurrence interals.
3. Compile the code on your system.