07/02/2021 *update background tiles 31/05/2020 *Portuguese translation of "Section 3: Measurement of wind" is uploaded *Portuguese translation of "Section 4: Evaluation of surface wind data sources" is uploaded 05/04/2020 *Portuguese translation of "Section 2: Extreme winds" is uploaded 18/02/2020 *Portuguese translation of "Section 1: Introduction" is uploaded 21/07/2019 *Final version of thesis uploaded *Backups of news articles referenced in footnotes throughout the thesis also uploaded 11/07/2019 *MSS updated with data up to 31/05/2019 *MSS Isolated Events now include the source of the peak observation (REDEMET, NCEI/NCDC or Weather Underground) and the raw meteorological report (METAR/SPECI or SYNOP) 09/07/2019 *WDS replaced by WRDS. WRDS includes: -Data from INMET's Restricted Access dDatabase -INMET WEB Data up to 31/05/2019. *WRDS Isolated Events now include the source of the peak observation (WEB, Restricted INMET, DISME or SADMET) 03/05/2019 *Upload NCDC Observed Data for Equatorial Region 23/04/2019 *Upload Extreme Distributions for -MSS -PAS31-2017 -WDS 08/01/2019 *Important links added 06/01/2019 *Upload Processed Data, Station Trends, Parent Distribution, Directionality, Event Trends and Classifications for INMET stations 18/12/2018 *Upload Processed Data, Station Trends, Parent Distribution, Directionality, Event Trends and Classifications for ICAO stations 15/12/2018 *Upload metadata for INMET stations 6/12/2018 *Upload metadata for ICAO stations 30/11/2018 *Upload Individual Events for -PAS31-2017 -WDS 28/11/2018 *Update Observed Data for SBGR - NCEI/NCDC 18/11/2018 *Upload Individual Events for MSS 16/11/2018 *Upload Observed Data for NCEI/NCDC 15/11/2018 *Upload Observed Data for -MSS -PAS31-2017 -PSEC46-2015 -WDS -SADMET