Climate change, climate variability and transportation

Procedia Environmental Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 130-145

  Love, Geoff ^a   Soares, Alice ^a   Püempel, Herbert ^a  

^a WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Impact; Services; Transport

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE; IMPACT; INFORMED DECISION; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; SERVICES; TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; WEATHER EXTREMES;

DECISION MAKING; SEA LEVEL; THUNDERSTORMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 78650770954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18780296     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 1016/j.proenv.2010.09.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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