A climatology of 1980-2003 extreme weather and climate events

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• Personal Author:
  Ross, Tom (Thomas F.) ; Lott, Neal
• Corporate Authors:
  National Climatic Data Center (U.S.)
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service)
• Description:
  "The U.S. sustained 58 weather-related disasters during the 1980-2003 period in which overall losses reached or exceeded $1 billion dollars at the time of the event. This analysis did not include any events that had unadjusted damages/losses less than $1 billion dollars and then subsequently may have reached $1 billion after applying the GNP inflation/wealth index. Forty-nine of these disasters occurred since 1988 with total unadjusted losses of nearly $220 billion. Seven events occurred in 1998 alone, the most for any year in this summary period, though other years have recorded higher damage totals"--Page 2.
• Content Notes:
  Tom Ross, Neal Lott.
  
  "December 2003."
  
  System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  
  Includes bibliographical references (page 8).
  
  
• Keywords:
  Climatic Extremes Costs Economic Aspects Information Resources Natural Disasters Climatic Extremes Economic Aspects Information Resources Natural Disasters
• Series:
  National Climatic Data Center technical report   no. 2003-01
• Document Type:
  Technical Report
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights Information:
  Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:58a001dda4e19ef72562f9037bd3a5c177e1c96ccc6b9c4e1f0b66fb3620cdc5
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/13831/noaa_13831_DS1.pdf
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