Climate extremes and society /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2008. |
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| Description: | xv, 340 p., [26] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7195379 |
Table of Contents:
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Preface: The significance of weather and climate extremes to society: an introduction
- I. Defining and modeling the nature of weather and climate extremes
- 1. Definition, diagnosis, and origin of extreme weather and climate events
- 2. Observed changes in the global distribution of daily temperature and precipitation extremes
- 3. The spatial distribution of severe convective storms and an analysis of their secular changes
- 4. Regional storm climate and related marine hazards in the Northeast Atlantic
- 5. Extensive summer hot and cold extremes under current and possible future climatic conditions: Europe and North America
- 6. Beyond mean climate change: what climate models tell us about future climate extremes
- 7. Tropical cyclones and climate change: revisiting recent studies at GFDL
- II. Impacts of weather and climate extremes
- 8. Extreme climatic events and their impacts: examples from the Swiss Alps
- 9. The impact of weather and climate extremes on coral growth
- 10. Forecasting US insured hurricane losses
- 11. Integrating hurricane loss models with climate models
- 12. An exploration of trends in normalized weather-related catastrophe losses
- 13. An overview of the impact of climate change on the insurance industry
- 14. Toward a comprehensive loss inventory of weather and climate hazards
- 15. The catastrophe modeling response to Hurricane Katrina
- 16. The Risk Prediction Initiative: a successful science-business partnership for analyzing natural hazard risk
- Index
