Increased costs to US pavement infrastructure from future temperature rise

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 704-707

  Underwood, B Shane ^a   Guido, Zack ^b   Gudipudi, Padmini ^a   Feinberg, Yarden ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHALT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST ANALYSIS; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PAVEMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85032579195     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3390     Document Type: Article

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