Quantitative risk assessment for future meteorological disasters: Reduced livestock mortality in Mongolia

Climatic Change

Volumn 113, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 867-882

  Tachiiri, Kaoru ^a   Shinoda, Masato ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE EVENT; DOMINANT FACTOR; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; ECOSYSTEM MODEL; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IN-DEGREE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; LEAF AREA INDEX; MONGOLIA; PRECIPITABLE WATER; QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SPECIAL REPORT ON EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; SUMMER RAINFALL; TREE-BASED MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTERS; DROUGHT; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

AGRICULTURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DAMAGE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; FORAGE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIVESTOCK; METEOROLOGY; MORTALITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

MONGOLIA;

EID: 84864287971     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0365-5     Document Type: Article

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