Research Catalog

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

Boston, Mass. : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Karl, Thomas
• Nicholls, N. (Neville)
• Ghazi, A., 1940-

Description

vi, 349 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Presents the 18 contributions and summaries of group discussions at the June 1997 Workshop on Indices and Indicators for Climate Extremes held in Asheville, North Carolina. They respond to the realization that global warming or other climate extremes, by unbalance biosphere cycles and causing massive public health problems, would almost certainly reduce average values. Thus there might indeed be cause for alarm. The topics include why US insurers care, data quality and monitoring issues of damaging weather conditions in the US, the use of indices to identify changes in climatic extremes, changes in climate extremes over the Australian region and New Zealand during the 20th century, changes in the probability of heavy precipitation, and a conceptual framework for changes of extremes of the hydrological cycle with climate change. The proceedings are also published as Climate Change vol. 42, no. 1 (1999). They are not indexed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Subjects

• Climate Change
• Insurance
• Climatic changes
• Climatic extremes

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine derived contents note: Overview; T. Karl. Summary. Workshop on Indices and Indicators for Climate Extremes; T. Karl, et al. Editorials. Breakout Group A: Storms; K.E. Trenberth, T.W. Owen. Breakout Group B: Precipitation; N. Nicholls, W. Murray. Breakout Group C: Temperature Indices for Climate Extremes; C.K. Folland, et al. Climate Extremes and the Insurance Industry. Global Climate Change: Why U.S. Insurers Care; F.W. Nutter. Interactions between the Atmospheric Sciences and Insurers in the United States; S. Changnon, et al. Damaging Weather Conditions in the United States: A Selection of Data Quality and Monitoring Issues; B. Skinner, et al. Observed Changes in Extremes. Atlantic Basin Hurricanes: Indices of Climatic Changes; C.W. Landsea, et al. The Use of Indices to Identify Changes in Climatic Extremes; P.D. Jones, et al. Progress in the Study of Climatic Extremes in Northern and Central Europe; R. Heino, et al. Changes in Climate Extremes over the Australian Region and New Zealand during the Twentieth Century; N. Plummer, et al. Changes of Climate Extremes in China; P. Zhai, et al. Indicators of Climate Change for the Russian Federation; G. Gruza, et al. Changes in the Probability of Heavy Precipitation: Important Indicators of Climatic Change; P.Y. Groisman, et al. Long-Term Observations for Monitoring Extremes in the Americas; D.R. Easterling, et al. Climate Extremes: Selected Review and Future Research Directions; T. Karl, D. Easterling. Some Critical Aspects of Extreme Events. Conceptual Framework for Changes of Extremes of the Hydrological Cycle with Climate Change; K.E. Trenberth. On Testing for Change in Extreme Events; A. Solow.

ISBN

0792357116 (hc. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99025780^

OCLC

• 41026610
• SCSB-9942794

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library