Quantifying uncertainty and variable sensitivity within the US billion-dollar weather and climate disaster cost estimates

Natural Hazards

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1829-1851

  Smith, Adam B ^a   Matthews, Jessica L ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs; Losses; Natural disasters; Sensitivity; Statistics of extreme events; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EXTREME EVENT; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NATURAL DISASTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84930381267     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-1678-x     Document Type: Article

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