Herbert saffir biography
- Herbert Seymour Saffir (29 March 1917 – 21 November 2007) was an American civil engineer who co-developed (with meteorologist Robert Simpson) the.
- Herbert Seymour Saffir was an American civil engineer who co-developed the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale for measuring the intensity of hurricanes.
- SAFFIR: Born in New York City in 1917.
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Herbert Seymour Saffir (1917 - 2007)
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Herbert was born in 1917. He passed away in 2007.
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Q and A with Herbert Saffir
Saffir helped develop the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale
By Ann Carter
Sun-Sentinel Editorial Board Member
June 24 2001
HERBERT S. SAFFIR: Born in New York City in 1917. Married to Sarah Young since 1941. Two grown children. Graduated Georgia Tech in 1940 with a B.S. in civil engineering. Came to what was then Dade County, Fla., in 1947 to be assistant county engineer. Set up his own consulting firm in Coral Gables, Fla., in 1959. In 1969, the United Nations commissioned a study of windstorm damage on low-cost housing, leading Saffir to develop a scale to measure hurricanes. Robert Simpson, then-director of the National Hurricane Center, added in the damage done by storm surge, resulting in the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. At age 83, Saffir maintains an engineering office in Coral Gables, Fla.
Q. As a structural engineer, how did you decide to investigate windstorms -- as opposed to earthquakes or some other natural phenomenon?
A. It started when I came down here (in 1947) as assistant county engineer for what was Dade County then. I had res
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"Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Damage Intensity Scale" Saffir, Herbert S. and Simpson, Robert H. (1971)
URL: http://www.weatherwise.org/qr/qry.scale.html
SITE SUMMARY: This Scale was invented by Saffir, an engineer and expert in storm damage to buildings, and by Simpson, a weather expert and Director of the National Hurricane Center. The Scale's purpose is to characterize hurricanes' intensity by using as criteria the amount of observable damage done to buildings of different sizes and to parts of nature such as shrubs and trees, both with relation to a storm's pressure, and wind speed, plus the surge of coastal waters in a storm's path; all on a numbered scale ranging from minor to catastrophic. This Web page, part of the Web site for Weather Wise: The Magazine About Weather, provides the Saffir-Simpson Scale data as it first appeared in print, and as it has appeared yearly since then. It also features the scale's history as explained by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) meteorologist Thomas Schlatter who consulted with Saffir in the ye
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