Deep uncertainty in long-term hurricane risk: Scenario generation and implications for future climate experiments

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 703-712

  Ranger, Nicola ^a   Niehörster, Falk ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Climate modeling; Hurricane; Risk; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DECISION MAKING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK FACTOR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84865794995     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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