Female hurricanes are not deadlier than male hurricanes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 34, 2014, Pages

  Malter, Daniel ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; FEMALE HURRICANE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HURRICANE; LETTER; MALE HURRICANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; SEX DIFFERENCE; DISASTER; FEMALE; MALE; METEOROLOGY; NOMENCLATURE;

CYCLONIC STORMS; DISASTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METEOROLOGY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84906682467     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1411428111     Document Type: Letter

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