Emergence timescales for detection of anthropogenic climate change in US tropical cyclone loss data

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Crompton, Ryan P ^a   Pielke, Roger A ^b   McAneney, K John ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; disasters; losses; tropical cyclones; United States

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DISASTERS; HURRICANES; LOSSES; STORMS; TROPICS;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; ANTHROPOGENIC SIGNALS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; NATURAL DISASTERS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY; TROPICAL STORMS; UNITED STATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 79952968492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/014003     Document Type: Article

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