European extra-tropical storm damage risk from a multi-model ensemble of dynamically-downscaled global climate models

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2847-2857

  Haylock, M R ^a  

^a PartnerRe   (Switzerland)

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CALIBRATION; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CLIMATE MODELING; DAMAGE; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GUST; PARAMETERIZATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STORM DAMAGE; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84865275842     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-2847-2011     Document Type: Article

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