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Weather, Climate, and Society

Influence of location, population, and climate on building damage and fatalities due to Australian bushfire: 1925–2009

The October 2010 and January 2011 issues of Weather, Climate, and Society includes an exchange between Ryan P. Crompton, K. John McAneney, Keping Chen, Roger A. Pielke Jr., Katharine Haynes and Neville Nicholls on the trends in normalized building damage in Australian bushfires. Below are links that include Crompton et al.'s paper, comments from Nicholls. The exchange concludes with a reply from Crompton, McAneney, Chen, Pielke, and Haynes.

Crompton, R. P., K. J. McAneney, K. Chen, R. A. Pielke Jr., and K. Haynes, 2010. Influence of Location, Population and Climate on Building Damage and Fatalities due to Australian Bushfire: 1925-2009. Weather, Climate, and Society, Vol. 2, pp. 300-310, doi: 10.1175/2010WCAS1063.1.

Nicholls, N., 2011. Comments on “Influence of Location, Population, and Climate on Building Damage and Fatalities due to Australian Bushfire: 1925–2009”. Weather, Climate, and Society, Vol.3, Issue 1, pp. 61-62, doi: 10.1175/WCAS-D-10-05001.1.

Crompton, R.P., K.J. McAneney, K. Chen, R.A. Pielke, Jr., and K. Haynes, 2011. Reply to the Nicholls (2011) comment on Crompton et al. (2010), “Influence of location, population, and climate on building damage and fatalities due to Australian bushfire: 1925–2009”. Weather, Climate, and Society, Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 63-66, doi: 10.1175/WCAS-D-11-00002.