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US billion-dollar weather and climate disasters: data sources, trends, accuracy and biases

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Adam B Smith, Richard W. Katz (2013). US billion-dollar weather and climate disasters: data sources, trends, accuracy and biases. Natural Hazards, 67(2), 387-410. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-013-0566-5