How severe space weather can disrupt global supply chains

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2749-2759

  Schulte In Den Baumen H ^a   Moran, D ^b   Lenzen, M ^a   Cairns, I ^a   Steenge, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORONAL MASS EJECTION; ECONOMIC IMPACT; FINANCIAL CRISIS; GLOBAL ECONOMY; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; WEATHER;

EID: 84908053386     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-14-2749-2014     Document Type: Article

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