Projections of global warming-induced impacts on winter storm losses in the German private household sector

Climatic Change

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 195-207

  Held, Hermann ^a,b   Gerstengarbe, Friedrich Wilhelm ^b   Pardowitz, Tobias ^c   Pinto, Joaquim G ^d,e   Ulbrich, Uwe ^c   Born, Kai ^d   Donat, Markus G ^f   Karremann, Melanie K ^d   Leckebusch, Gregor C ^g   Ludwig, Patrick ^d   Nissen, Katrin M ^c   Österle, Hermann ^b   Prahl, Boris F ^b   Werner, Peter C ^b   Befort, Daniel J ^c   Burghoff, Olaf ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^h German Insurance Association (GDV)   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DOWNSCALING METHODS; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP; STATISTICAL-DYNAMICAL;

GLOBAL WARMING; INSURANCE;

STORMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DOWNSCALING; METEOROLOGY; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; RETURN PERIOD; STORM DAMAGE; TRANSFER FUNCTION; WINTER;

GERMANY;

EID: 84887607104     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0872-7     Document Type: Article

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