Climate impact response functions as impact tools in the tolerable windows approach

Climatic Change

Volumn 56, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 91-117

  Fussel H M ^a   Toth, F L ^a,d   Van Minnen, J G ^b   Kaspar, F ^c  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^d INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE IMPACT;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0037282022     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021340513936     Document Type: Article

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