A catastrophe modeling firm said they are funding a university research program that involves deploying mobile towers to capture hurricane wind speed data.

AIR Worldwide Corp. in Boston announced that the company will sponsor the research efforts by Texas Tech University to further scientific understanding of the detailed structure of hurricane winds over land.

The university's research team has an impressive track record for the collection of land-based wind speed data. For example, they obtained the only complete wind speed record from the eastern eye wall of Hurricane Katrina, “which has proven invaluable to the many meteorologists and wind engineers who continue to analyze the storm and its impact on structures,” according to Jayanta Guin, vice president for research and modeling at AIR

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