Normalized hurricane damages in the United States: 1925-95

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 13, Issue 3 PART2, 1998, Pages 621-631

  Pielke Jr , Roger A ^a,c   Landsea, Christopher W ^b  

^a Geophysical Statistics Project   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HURRICANE DAMAGE NORMALIZATION;

DISASTER PREVENTION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

HURRICANE EFFECTS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; HURRICANE; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; NATURAL HAZARD; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032172942     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1998)013<0621:nhditu>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Review

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