Identifying extreme event climate thresholds for greater Manchester, UK: Examining the past to prepare for the future

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 26-35

  Smith, Claire ^a   Lawson, Nigel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change adaptation; Extreme event; Risk; Temporal trend; Threshold; Urban

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857913816     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.252     Document Type: Article

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