Quantifying the local economic growth impact of hurricane strikes: An analysis from outer space for the caribbean

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1688-1697

  Bertinelli, Luisito ^a   Strobl, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; HURRICANE DESTRUCTION; OUTER SPACE; WIND FIELD MODELING;

AGGREGATES; HURRICANES; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC IMPACT; HURRICANE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DATA;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 84884255778     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0258.1     Document Type: Article

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