A hierarchical collection of political/economic regions for analysis of climate extremes

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" A hierarchical collection of political/economic regions for analysis of climate extremes "
Stone, DA

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	911720
Doc. No	:	LA6v8524c9
Title & Author	:	A hierarchical collection of political/economic regions for analysis of climate extremes [Article]\ Stone, DA
Date	:	2019
Title of Periodical	:	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Abstract	:	© 2019, Springer Nature B.V. This paper describes five sets of regions intended for use in summarizing extreme weather over Earth’s land areas from a climate perspective. The sets differ in terms of their target size: ∼10 Mm2, ∼5 Mm2, ∼2 Mm2, ∼0.5 Mm2, and ∼0.1 Mm2 (where 1 Mm2= 1 million km2). The regions are based on political/economic divisions, and hence are intended to be primarily aligned with geographical domains of decision-making and disaster response rather than other factors such as climatological homogeneity. This paper describes the method for defining these sets of regions; provides the final definitions of the regions; and performs some comparisons across the five sets and other available regional definitions with global land coverage, according to climatological and non-climatological properties.