Economic losses from US hurricanes consistent with an influence from climate change

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 880-884

  Estrada, Francisco ^a,b   Botzen, W J Wouter ^b   Tol, Richard S J ^b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e CESIFO   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; HURRICANE; NATURAL DISASTER; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL APPLICATION; VULNERABILITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84945932417     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2560     Document Type: Article

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