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Assessing, modeling, and monitoring the impacts of extreme climate events

Authors :
Henry F. Diaz
Richard J. Murnane
Source :
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 87:25
Publication Year :
2006
Publisher :
American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2006.

Abstract

Extreme weather and climate events provide dramatic content for the news media, and the past few years have supplied plenty of material. The 2004 and 2005 Atlantic hurricane seasons were very active; the United States was struck repeatedly by landfalling major hurricanes. A five-year drought in the southwestern United States was punctuated in 2003 by wildfires in southern California that caused billions of dollars in losses. Ten cyclones of at least tropical storm strength struck Japan in 2004, easily breaking the 1990 and 1993 records of six cyclones each year. Hurricane Catarina was the first recorded hurricane in the South Atlantic. Europe's summer of 2003 saw record-breaking heat that caused tens of thousands of deaths.

Details

ISSN :
00963941
Volume :
87
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........2c58e386763e50c5f54d92bd6a4bc36d
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1029/2006eo030004