Atlantic hurricanes and associated insurance loss potentials in future climate scenarios: Limitations of high-resolution AGCM simulations

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Raible, Christoph C ^a   Kleppek, Sabine ^a   Wüest, Marc ^b   Bresch, David N ^b   Kitoh, Akio ^c   Murakami, Hiroyuki ^d   Stocker, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS REINSURANCE COMPANY   (Switzerland)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Future scenarios; Hurricane identification method; Hurricanes; Loss potential

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; HURRICANE; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 84865140572     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v64i0.15672     Document Type: Article

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