Losses from weather extremes in the United States

Natural Hazards Review

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 113-123

  Changnon, Stanley A ^a   Hewings, Geoffrey J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY COST; HEAVY RAINS; HISTORICAL DATA; TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR; WEATHER EXTREMES; WINTER STORMS;

FLOODS; HURRICANES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); THUNDERSTORMS;

CROPS;

EID: 0037683172     PISSN: 15276988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1527-6988(2001)2:3(113)     Document Type: Article

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