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Climate Choices: How Should We Meet the Challenges of a Warming Planet? [PDF]

, 2016
This issue guide was prepared for the National Issues Forums Institute in collaboration with the Kettering Foundation and the North American Association for Environmental Education.
Bora Simmons, Michele Archie, Scott London   +2 more
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Energy price risk management

, 2000
The price of electricity is far more volatile than that of other commodities normally noted for extreme volatility. Demand and supply are balanced on a knife-edge because electric power cannot be economically stored, end user demand is largely weather ...
Beran, Bjorgan, Dacorogna, Fusaro (Ed.), Green, Guillaume, Hull, Hull, Kurtz, Mantegna, Rafal Weron, Rendleman, Smithson   +12 more
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Bayesian model averaging over tree-based dependence structures for multivariate extremes

, 2018
Describing the complex dependence structure of extreme phenomena is particularly challenging. To tackle this issue we develop a novel statistical algorithm that describes extremal dependence taking advantage of the inherent hierarchical dependence ...
Genton, Marc G., Huser, Raphaël, Segers, Johan, Vettori, Sabrina   +3 more
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Are we joining the One Health dots? A scoping review of research on the one health effects of extreme weather events in eastern Australia

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Extreme weather events such as floods, bushfires, cyclones, and drought, are projected to increase in eastern Australia. Understanding how these events influence the combined, sustainable well-being of humans, animals, and ecosystems – that is One Health
Rebecca Ward, Rebecca Ward, Victoria J. Brookes, Victoria J. Brookes, Kazi Mizanur Rahman, Kazi Mizanur Rahman   +5 more
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Elevating Extreme Weather Forecasting Precision Through the NEMY Generation Framework [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
This paper presents an innovative methodology known as New Extreme Meteorological Years (NEMY) for comprehensively understanding extreme weather patterns.
Yan Yi
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The Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Budget Balances and Implications for Fiscal Policy. [PDF]

This paper explores implications of climate change for fiscal policy by assessing the impact of large scale extreme weather events on changes in public budgets.
Christiane Nickel, Eliza M. Lis
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Adapting the community sector for climate extremes [PDF]

 People experiencing poverty and inequality will be affected first and worst by the impacts of climate change to infrastructure and human settlements, including those caused by increasingly frequent and intense extreme weather events and natural ...
Betsi Beem, Emily Hamilton, Julius Abs, Karl Mallon, Manu Black   +4 more
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AIE-YOLO: Effective object detection method in extreme driving scenarios via adaptive image enhancement

Science Progress
The widespread research and implementation of visual object detection technology have significantly transformed the autonomous driving industry. Autonomous driving relies heavily on visual sensors to perceive and analyze the environment.
Qianren Guo, Yuehang Wang, Yongji Zhang, Minghao Zhao, Yu Jiang   +4 more
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Does extreme weather affect the resilience of agricultural economies? Analysis based on agricultural insurance

Frontiers in Environmental Science
IntroductionAgainst the backdrop of global warming and the frequent occurrence of extreme weather events, effectively bringing into play the effectiveness of agricultural insurance in supporting agriculture and enhancing the resilience of the ...
Xiaoyan Zeng, Xiaoyan Zeng, Huiling Lu, Huaqing Qi, Huaqing Qi, Long Ji   +5 more
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Impact of extreme weather events and climate change for health and social care systems

Environmental Health, 2017
This review, commissioned by the Research Councils UK Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) programme, concerns research on the impacts on health and social care systems in the United Kingdom of extreme weather events, under conditions of climate ...
Sarah Curtis, Alistair Fair, Jonathan Wistow, Dimitri V. Val, Katie Oven   +4 more
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