Effects of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation on Drought Impacts in the United States

The authors present a method for analyzing the economic benefits to the United States resulting from changes in drought frequency and severity due to global greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation. The method begins by constructing reduced-form models of the effect of drought on agriculture and reservoir re...

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Main Authors: Fitzgerald, Ellen, Neumann, James E., Martinich, Jeremy, Boehlert, Brent B., Strzepek, Kenneth Marc
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Global Change Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Meteorological Society 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101108
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9494-785X