Historical global analysis of occurrences and human casualty of extreme temperature events (ETEs)

Natural Hazards

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1453-1505

  Lee, W Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climatological natural disaster; Cold wave; Disaster impact analysis; Extreme temperature events; Heat wave; Human casualty

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; EXTREME EVENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NATURAL DISASTER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ASIA;

EID: 84891153767     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0884-7     Document Type: Article

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