Multi-Decadal Signal
(Weather Guru)
Wed Sep 21 2005 07:50 PM
Re: Recon

Simple calculation for relative area of wind field.
A= Pi r^2.
Therefore: a circular storm of radius 50 miles has 1/4 the area as a storm of 100 mile radius. And so on... for only comparing relative areas one need not even know the value of Pi. Pi= 22/7 = 3.1416

Cheers!



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