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Presents the 18 contributions and summaries of group discussions at the June 1997 Workshop on Indices and Indicators for Climate Extremes held in Asheville, North Carolina. They respond to the realization that global warming or other climate extremes, by unbalance biosphere cycles and causing massive public health problems, would almost certainly reduce average values. Thus there might indeed be cause for alarm. The topics include why US insurers care, data quality and monitoring issues of damaging weather conditions in the US, the use of indices to identify changes in climatic extremes, changes in climate extremes over the Australian region and New Zealand during the 20th century, changes in the probability of heavy precipitation, and a conceptual framework for changes of extremes of the hydrological cycle with climate change. The proceedings are also published as Climate Change vol. 42, no. 1 (1999). They are not indexed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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