Forecasting us insured hurricane losses

Climate Extremes and Society

Volumn 9780521870283, Issue , 2008, Pages 189-208

  Jagger, Thomas H ^a   Elsner, James B ^a   Saunders, Mark A ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; FORECASTING; INSURANCE; LOSSES; RAIN; STORMS;

ATLANTIC HURRICANE; CLIMATE CONDITION; ECONOMIC CONCERNS; EMPIRICAL PROBABILITIES; HURRICANE ACTIVITY; HURRICANE KATRINA; INSURANCE INDUSTRY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

HURRICANES;

EID: 84927955651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511535840.012     Document Type: Chapter

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