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Climate extremes and society / edited by Henry F. Diaz and Richard J. Murnane.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2008. c2008.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes -- Social aspects.

Climatic changes -- Economic aspects.

Human beings -- Effect of climate on.

9780521870283 (hbk.)

0521870283 (hbk.)

xv, 340 p., [26] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.

Significance of weather and climate extremes to society : an introduction / Henry F. Diaz, Richard J. Murnane -- Defining and modeling the nature of weather and climate extremes. Definition, diagnosis, and origin of extreme weather and climate events / David B. Stephenson -- Observed changes in the global distribution of daily temperature and precipitation extremes / David R. Easterling -- Spatial distribution of severe convective storms and an analysis of their secular changes / Harold E. Brooks, Nikolai Dotzek -- Regional storm climate and related marine hazards in the Northeast Atlantic / Hans von Storch, Ralf Weisse Extensive summer hot and cold extremes under current and possible future climatic conditions : Europe and North America / Alexander Gershunov, Herve Douville -- Beyond mean climate change : what climate models tell us about future climate extremes / Claudia Tebaldi, Gerald A. Meehl -- Tropical cyclones and climate change : revisiting recent studies at GFDL / Thomas R. Knutson, Robert E. Tuleya --

Impacts of weather and climate extremes. Extreme climatic events and their impacts : examples from the Swiss Alps / Martin Beniston -- Impact of weather and climate extremes on coral growth / M. James, C. Crabbe, Emma L. L. Walker, David B. Stephenson -- Forecasting US insured hurricane losses / Thomas H. Jagger, James B. Elsner, Mark A. Saunders -- Integrating hurricane loss models with climate models / Charles C. Watson, Jr., Mark E. Johnson -- Exploration of trends in normalized weather-related catastrophe losses / Stuart Miller, Robert Muir-Wood, Auguste Boissonnade -- All overview of the impact of climate change on the insurance industry / Andrew Dlugolecki -- Toward a comprehensive loss inventory of weather and climate hazards / Susan L. Cutter, Melanie Gall, Christopher T. Emrich -- Catastrophe modeling response to Hurricane Katrina / Robert Muir-Wood, Patricia Grossi -- Risk Prediction Initiative : a successful science-business partnership for analyzing natural hazard risk / Richard J. Murnane, Anthony Knap.

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