Natural disaster occurrence and average global temperature Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • In the context of climate change, there is potential for a higher frequency of natural disasters. Here a linear regression analysis is employed to link the relationship between the natural disaster occurrence and average global temperature from 1980 to 2010. The results indicate that epidemic, extreme temperature, flood and storm events are strongly affected by climate. If the average global temperature increases by 1 C, the occurrence of epidemic, extreme temperature, flood and storm would increase by 101, 42, 268 and 95 occurrences per year respectively.

published proceedings

  • Disaster Advances

author list (cited authors)

  • Pan, X., Shen, D., Dong, X., & Patton, B.

complete list of authors

  • Pan, X||Shen, D||Dong, X||Patton, B

publication date

  • October 2011