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Title Extreme events : observations, modeling, and economics / Mario Chavez, Michael Ghil, Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi, editors
Published Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley ; Washington, D.C. : American Geophysical Union, [2015]
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Series Geophysical monograph series ; 214
Geophysical monograph ; 214
Contents Applications of Extreme Value Theory to Environmental Data Analysis / Gwladys Toulemonde, Pierre Ribereau, and Philippe Naveau -- Dynamical Systems Approach to Extreme Events / Catherine Nicolis and Gregoire Nicolis -- Skill of Data-based Predictions versus Dynamical Models: A Case Study on Extreme Temperature Anomalies / Stefan Siegert, Jochen Bröcker, and Holger Kantz -- Detecting and Anticipating Climate Tipping Points / Timothy M. Lenton and Valerie N. Livina -- Understanding ENSO Variability and Its Extrema: A Delay Differential Equation Approach / Michael Ghil and Ilya Zaliapin -- Drivers of Extreme Space Weather Events: Fast Coronal Mass Ejections / Alexander Ruzmaikin, Joan Feynman, and Stilian Stoev -- Chicxulub Asteroid Impact: An Extreme Event at the Cretaceous/Paleogene Boundary / Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi and Ligia Pérez-Cruz -- Weather and Climatic Drivers of Extreme Flooding Events over the Midwest of the United States / Andrew W. Robertson, Yochanan Kushnir, Upmanu Lall, and Jennifer Nakamura -- Analysis of the Hazards and Vulnerability of the Cancun Beach System: The Case of Hurricane Wilma / Edgar Mendoza, Rodolfo Silva, Cecilia Enriquez-Ortiz, Ismael Mariño-Tapia, and Angélica Felix -- Observations and Modeling of Environmental and Human Damage Caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami / Kazuhisa Goto, Fumihiko Imamura, Shunichi Koshimura, and Hideaki Yanagisawa -- Extreme Capillary Wave Events Under Parametric Excitation / Michael G. Shats, Hua Xia, and Horst Punzmann -- A Review of Great Magnitude Earthquakes and Associated Tsunamis along the Guerrero, Mexico Pacific Coast: A Multiproxy Approach / María-Teresa Ramírez-Herrera, Néstor Corona, and Gerardo Suárez -- Landslide Risk to the Population of Italy and Its Geographical and Temporal Variations / Paola Salvati, Mauro Rossi, Cinzia Bianchi, and Fausto Guzzetti -- An Extreme Event Approach to Volcanic Hazard Assessment / Servando De la Cruz-Reyna and Ana Teresa Mendoza-Rosas -- Economic Impact of Extreme Events: An Approach Based on Extreme Value Theory / Richard W. Katz -- Extreme Magnitude Earthquakes and Their Direct Economic Impacts: A Hybrid Approach / Mario Chavez, Eduardo Cabrera, Silvia Garcia, Erik Chavez, Mike Ashworth, Narciso Perea, and Alejandro Salazar -- Tropical Cyclones: From the Influence of Climate to Their Socioeconomic Impacts / Suzana J. Camargo and Solomon M. Hsiang -- Impacts of Natural Disasters on a Dynamic Economy / Andreas Groth, Patrice Dumas, Michael Ghil, and Stéphane Hallegatte -- Extreme Tsunami Events in the Mediterranean and Its Impact on the Algerian Coasts / Lubna A. Amir, Walter Dudley, and Brian G. McAdoo -- High-Tech Risks: The 2011 Tôhoku Extreme Events / Heriberta Castaños and Cinna Lomnitz -- On Predictive Understanding of Extreme Events: Pattern Recognition Approach, Prediction Algorithms, Applications to Disaster Preparedness / Vladimir Keilis-Borok, Alexandre Soloviev, and Andrei Gabrielov
Summary The monograph covers the fundamentals and the consequences of extreme geophysical phenomena like asteroid impacts, climatic change, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, flooding, and space weather. This monograph also addresses their associated, local and worldwide socio-economic impacts. The understanding and modeling of these phenomena is critical to the development of timely worldwide strategies for the prediction of natural and anthropogenic extreme events, in order to mitigate their adverse consequences. This monograph is unique in as much as it is dedicated to recent theoretical, numerical and empirical developments that aim to improve: (i) the understanding, modeling and prediction of extreme events in the geosciences, and, (ii) the quantitative evaluation of their economic consequences. The emphasis is on coupled, integrative assessment of the physical phenomena and their socio-economic impacts. With its overarching theme, Extreme Events: Observations, Modeling and Economics will be relevant to and become an important tool for researchers and practitioners in the fields of hazard and risk analysis in general, as well as to those with a special interest in climate change, atmospheric and oceanic sciences, seismo-tectonics, hydrology, and space weather
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Wiley, viewed December 8, 2015)
Subject Environmental economics -- Mathematical models
Natural disasters -- Mathematical models
Extreme value theory.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Environmental economics -- Mathematical models
Extreme value theory
Natural disasters -- Mathematical models
Form Electronic book
Author Chavez, Mario, editor
Ghil, Michael, editor
Urrutia Fucugauchi, Jaime, editor
ISBN 9781119157052
1119157056
9781119157038
111915703X
9781119157045
1119157048