Climate Extremes and Society

ISBN: 9780521298483 出版年：2008 页码：384 Henry F Diaz Richard J Murnane Cambridge University Press

Foreword R. S. Pulwarty Preface H. F. Diaz and R. J. Murnane Introduction H. F. Diaz and R. J. Murnane Part I. Defining and Modeling the Nature of Weather and Climate Extremes: 1. Definition, diagnosis, and origin of extreme weather and climate events David Stephenson 2. Observed changes in the global distribution of daily temperature and precipitation extremes David Easterling 3. The spatial distribution of severe convective storms and an analysis of their secular changes Harold Brooks and Nikolai Dotzek 4. Regional storm climate and related marine hazards in the Northeast Atlantic Hans von Storch and Ralf Weisse 5. Extensive summer hot and cold extremes under current and possible future climatic conditions - Europe and North America Alexander Gershunov and Herve Douville 6. Beyond mean climate change - what climate models tell us about future climate extremes Claudia Tebaldi and Gerald A. Meehl 7. Tropical cyclones and climate change - revisiting recent studies at GFDL Thomas R. Knutson and Robert E. Tuleya Part II. Impacts of Weather and Climate Extremes: 8. Extreme climatic events and their impacts - examples from the European Alps Martin Beniston 9. The impact of weather and climate extremes on coral growth M. James C. Crabbe, Emma L. L. Walker, David B. Stephenson 10. Forecasting US insured hurricane losses Thomas H. Jagger, James B. Elsner and Mark A. Saunders 11. Integrating hurricane loss models with climate models Charles Watson and Mark Johnson 12. An exploration of trends in normalized weather-related catastrophe losses Stuart Miller, Robert Muir-Wood and Auguste Boissonnade 13. An overview of the impact of climate change on the insurance industry Andrew Dlugolecki 14. Toward a comprehensive loss inventory of weather and climate hazards Susan L. Cutter, Melanie Gall and Christopher T. Emrich 15. The Catastrophe Modeling response to Hurricane Katrina Robert Muir-Wood and Patricia Grossi 16. The Risk Prediction Initiative: a successful science-business partnership for analyzing natural hazard risk Richard J. Murnane and Anthony Knap Index.