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Weather and climate extremes : changes, variations and a perspective from the insurance industry

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Title: Weather and climate extremes : changes, variations and a perspective from the insurance industry / edited by Thomas R. Karl, Neville Nicholls and Anver Ghazi
Publication: -Dordrecht ; Boston ; London : Kluwer Academic Publishers, cop. 1999Physical description: 350 p. ; 24 cmNotes: Workshop on Indices and Indicators for Climate Extremes -- Global Climate Change: Why U.S. Insurers Care -- Interactions between the Atmospheric Sciences and Insurers in the United States -- Damaging Weather Conditions in the United States: A Selection of Data Quality and Monitoring Issues -- Atlantic Basin Hurricanes: Indices of Climatic Changes -- The Use of Indices to Identify Changes in Climatic Extremes -- Progress in the Study of Climatic Extremes in Northern and Central Europe -- Changes in Climate Extremes over the Australian Region and New Zealand during the Twentieth Century -- Changes of Climate in China -- Indicators of Climate Change for the Russian Federation -- Changes in the Probability of Heavy Precipitation: Important Indicators of Climatic Change -- Long-Term Observations for Monitoring Extremes in the Americas -- Climate Extremes: Selected Review and Future Research Directions -- Conceptual Framework for Changes of Extremes of the Hydrological Cycle with Climate Change -- On Testing for Change in Extreme Events -- Materia / lugar / evento: Clima Indicadores ambientales Cambio climático Precipitación Máxima Probable Huracanes Seguros de empresas Other categories: 324.2Standard numbers: ISBN 0-7923-5711-6
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FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE. Centro de Documentación — Signature: 324.2 WEA WEA — Record number: 029550
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