Frequency and intensity of hurricanes within Florida’s threat zone

Hurricanes and Climate Change- Volume 2

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 191-203

  Malmstadt, Jill C ^a   Elsner, James B ^a   Jagger, Thomas H ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Florida; Hurricane; Intensity; Return period; Threat

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

FLORIDA; INTENSITY; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; PEAK INTENSITY; RETURN PERIODS; SIMPLE LINEAR REGRESSION; THREAT; WIND INTENSITY;

HURRICANES;

EID: 84962849707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9510-7_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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