Human fatalities from wind-related tree failures in the United States, 1995-2007

Natural Hazards

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-25

  Schmidlin, Thomas W ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fallen tree; Fatalities; Storm deaths

Indexed keywords

FOREST COVER; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONALITY; SNOW; THUNDERSTORM; TORNADO; TREE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND VELOCITY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649415109     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-008-9314-7     Document Type: Article

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