Maximum wind speeds and US hurricane losses

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Murnane, R J ^a   Elsner, J B ^b  

^a BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LOSSES; POPULATION STATISTICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND EFFECTS;

DATA SETS; ECONOMIC LOSS; HURRICANE LOSS; MAXIMUM WIND SPEED; POPULATION DENSITIES; PUBLIC INTEREST; QUANTILE REGRESSION; WIND SPEED;

HURRICANES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; ECONOMIC IMPACT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HURRICANE; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STORM DAMAGE; WIND VELOCITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865647027     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052740     Document Type: Article

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