Sentences with phrase «constructed damage estimates»

Based on detailed reports of TCs that were generated in the Southern Ocean and hit Australia since 1970, from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Seo constructed damage estimates «using the reported financial loss, destruction of houses and capital goods, and losses of agricultural crops and livestock after a careful examination of the detailed individual cyclone reports,» which also included «local area income and population density where the storm hit.»

Not exact matches

Existing estimates are based not on testable (let alone tested) economic models of how changes in climate generate economic costs, but on conjecture, guesswork, and sometimes simply by asking «experts» — the people who construct SCC estimates — what they think the damages from climate change might be.»

We use this approach to construct spatially explicit, probabilistic, and empirically derived estimates of economic damage in the United States from climate change.