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CLIMATE CHANGE AND EXTREME WEATHER

General Studies

Cowell, Ophelia. 2000. Gathering Storm: The human cost of climate change. Friends of the Earth International: Amsterdam. PDF.

Vellinga, P. and W. J. van Verseveld. 2000. Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF): Gland, Switzerland. PDF.

Francis, David and Henry Hengeveld. 1998. Extreme Weather And Climate Change. Environment Canada: Ottawa.
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Floods

Mirza, M. Monirul Qader, R. A. Warrick, and N. J. Ericksen. 2003. "The Implications of Climate Change on Floods of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers in Bangladesh," Climatic Change, Vol. 57, No. 3, April, pp. 287-318. [ABSTRACT]

Schnur, Reiner. 2002. "Climate science: The investment forecast," Nature, 31 January, Vol. 415, pp. 483 - 484.

Milly, P. C. D., R. T. Wetherald, K. A. Dunne, and T. L. Delworth. 2002. "Increasing risk of great floods in a changing climate," Nature, Vol. 415, 31 January, pp. 514 - 517.

Mirza, M. Monirul Qader. 2002. "Global warming and changes in the probability of occurrence of floods in Bangladesh and implications," Global Environmental Change, Vol. 12, No. 2, July, pp. 127-138. [ABSTRACT]

Baxter, P. J., I. Moller, T. Spencer, R. J. Spence, and S. Tapsellin. 2001. "Flooding and climate change," in: Department of Health. 2001. Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK. TEXT

Reynard, N. S., C. Prudhomme, and S. M. Crooks. 2001. "The Flood Characteristics of Large U.K. Rivers: Potential Effects of Changing Climate and Land Use," Climatic Change, Vol. 48, No. 2-3, February, pp. 343-359. [ABSTRACT]

Schreider, S. Yu., D. I. Smith, and A. J. Jakeman. 2000. "Climate Change Impacts on Urban Flooding," Climatic Change, Vol. 47, No. 1-2, October, pp. 91-115. [ABSTRACT]

Droughts

Karoly, David, James Risbey, and Anna Reynolds. 2003. Global Warming Contributes to Australia's Worst Drought. WWF Australia: Sydney. PDF

Joubert, A. M., S. J. Mason, J. S. Galpin. 1996. "Droughts Over Southern Africa in a Doubled-CO2 Climate," International Journal of Climatology, Vol. 16, No. 10, pp. 1149-1156. [ABSTRACT]

Rind, David. 1995. "Drying Out the Tropics," New Scientist, May 6, pp. 36-40.

Rosenzweig, C., and D. Hillel. 1993. "The Dust Bowl of the 1930s: Analog of greenhouse effect in the Great Plains?," Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 22, pp. 9-22. [ABSTRACT]

Tropical Cyclones

Walsh, K., and A.B. Pittock. 1998. "Potential Changes in Tropical Storms, Hurricanes, and Extreme Rainfall Events as a Result of Climate Change," Climatic Change, Vol. 39, No. 2-3, July, pp. 199-213. [ABSTRACT]

Royer, J.-F., F. Chauvin, B. Timbal, P. Araspin and D. Grimal. 1998. "A Gcm Study of the Impact of Greenhouse Gas Increase on the Frequency of Occurrence of Tropical Cyclones," Climatic Change, Vol. 38, No. 3, March, pp. 307-343. [ABSTRACT]

Knutson, Thomas R., Robert E. Tuleya, and Yoshio Kurihara. 1998. "Simulated Increase of Hurricane Intensities in a CO2-Warmed Climate," Science, February 13, Vol. 279, No. 5353, pp. 1018-1020.

Storms

Dorland, C., R. S. J. Tol, and J. P. Palutikof. 1999. "Vulnerability of the Netherlands and Northwest Europe to Storm Damage under Climate Change," Climatic Change, Vol. 43, No. 3, November, pp. 513-535. [ABSTRACT]

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