Future climate risk from compound events

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 469-477

  Zscheischler, Jakob ^a   Westra, Seth ^b   Van Den Hurk, Bart J J M ^c,d   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^a   Ward, Philip J ^d   Pitman, Andy ^e   Aghakouchak, Amir ^f   Bresch, David N ^g,h   Leonard, Michael ^b   Wahl, Thomas ⁱ   Zhang, Xuebin ^j  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^h FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

ⁱ University of Central Florida   (United States)

^j ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; FUTURE PROSPECT; HEAT WAVE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WILDFIRE;

EID: 85046890068     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-018-0156-3     Document Type: Review

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