1. Overview

   • Thomas Karl

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 2

2. Clivar/GCOS/WMO Workshop on Indices and Indicators for Climate Extremes Workshop Summary

   • Thomas R. Karl
   • Neville Nicholls
   • Anver Ghazi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 7

3. Workshop on Indices and Indicators for Climate Extremes, Asheville, NC, USA, 3–6 June 1997 Breakout Group A: Storms

   • Kevin E. Trenberth
   • Timothy W. Owen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 21

4. Workshop on Indices and Indicators for Climate Extremes: Asheville, NC, USA, 3–6 June 1997 Breakout Group B: Precipitation

   • Neville Nicholls
   • William Murray

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 29

5. Workshop on Indices and Indicators for Climate Extremes, Asheville, NC, USA, 3–6 June 1997 Breakout Group C: Temperature Indices for Climate Extremes

   • C.K. Folland
   • C. Miller
   • P. Scholefield

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 43

6. Global Climate Change: Why U.S. Insurers Care

   • Franklin W. Nutter

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 49

7. Interactions Between the Atmospheric Sciences and Insurers in the United States

   • Stanley A. Changnon
   • E. Ray Fosse
   • Eugene L. Lecomte

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 67

8. Damaging Weather Conditions in the United States: A Selection of Data Quality and Monitoring Issues

   • Brian D. Skinner
   • David Changnon
   • Peter J. Lamb

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 87

9. Atlantic Basin Hurricanes: Indices of Climatic Changes

   • Christopher W. Landsea
   • Roger A. Pielke Jr.
   • John A. Knaff

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 129

10. The Use of Indices to Identify Changes in Climatic Extremes

    • P.D. Jones
    • E.B. Horton
    • T.A. Basnett

    OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 149

11. Progress in the Study of Climatic Extremes in Northern and Central Europe

    • R. Heino
    • R. Brázdil
    • J. Wibig

    OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 181

12. Changes in Climate Extremes Over the Australian Region and New Zealand During the Twentieth Century

    • Neil Plummer
    • M. James Salinger
    • Janice M. Lough

    OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 202

13. Changes of Climate Extremes in China

    • Panmao Zhai
    • Anjian Sun
    • Qiang Zhang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 203 - 218

14. Indicators of Climate Change for the Russian Federation

    • G. Gruza
    • E. Rankova
    • O. Bulygina

    OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 242

15. Changes in the Probability of Heavy Precipitation: Important Indicators of Climatic Change

    • Pavel Ya. Groisman
    • Thomas R. Karl
    • Pan-Mao Zhai

    OriginalPaper Pages: 243 - 283

16. Long-term Observations for Monitoring Extremes in the Americas

    • David R. Easterling
    • Henry F. Diaz
    • Jaime F. Wilkinson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 285 - 308

17. Climate Extremes: Selected Review and Future Research Directions

    • Thomas R. Karl
    • David R. Easterling

    OriginalPaper Pages: 309 - 325

18. Conceptual Framework for Changes of Extremes of the Hydrological Cycle with Climate Change

    • Kevin E. Trenberth

    OriginalPaper Pages: 327 - 339

19. On Testing for Change in Extreme Events

    • Andrew R. Solow

    OriginalPaper Pages: 341 - 349