MAP20070033288Weather and climate extremes : changes, variations and a perspective from the insurance industry / edited by Thomas R. Karl, Neville Nicholls and Anver Ghazi. — -Dordrecht ; Boston ; London : Kluwer Academic Publishers, cop. 1999350 p. ; 24 cmWorkshop 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 --