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Basic wind speed in Ghana

Basic wind speed in Ghana

Basic wind speed in Ghana

(OP)
Hello,

I'm providing structural engineering consultancy for a project of a building in Ghana (Accra) and I'm having some difficulties finding the basic wind speed required for design. My question is: does anyone have or know where I can find any reliable data, either design speeds or historical wind speed records which I can use to fit a Gumbel distribution and assess it myself?

Thanks in advance,
André

RE: Basic wind speed in Ghana

In Appendix D of "Wind loading structures", 2nd edition, John Holmes
It contains a list of basic wind speeds for several countries around the world. However, it doesn't contain Ghana, but it has values for Mauritania and Morocco.

Good luck

RE: Basic wind speed in Ghana

If you find any good source for what you are looking for, please let us know, because I was searching for the same thing before few weeks.

Regards

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