Regional decision-makers as potential users of Extreme Weather Event Attribution - Case studies from the German Baltic Sea coast and the Greater Paris area

Weather and Climate Extremes

Volumn 18, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-7

  Schwab, Maria ^a   Meinke, Insa ^a   Vanderlinden, Jean Paul ^b   von Storch, Hans ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECISION MAKING; EXPERT SYSTEM; EXTREME EVENT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; POLITICAL SYSTEM; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; STAKEHOLDER; STORM SURGE; WEATHER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; FRANCE; GERMANY; ILE DE FRANCE; PARIS; VILLE DE PARIS;

EID: 85030472396     PISSN: 22120947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2017.09.001     Document Type: Article

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