AghaKouchak / Easterling / Hsu Extremes in a Changing Climate

Detection, Analysis and Uncertainty
2013
ISBN: 978-94-007-4479-0
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 65, 426 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Water Science and Technology Library

This book provides a collection of the state-of-the-art methodologies and approaches suggested for detecting extremes, trend analysis, accounting for nonstationarities, and uncertainties associated with extreme value analysis in a changing climate. This volume is designed so that it can be used as the primary reference on the available methodologies for analysis of climate extremes. Furthermore, the book addresses current hydrometeorologic global data sets and their applications for global scale analysis of extremes. While the main objective is to deliver recent theoretical concepts, several case studies on extreme climate conditions are provided. 

Audience
The book is suitable for teaching in graduate courses in the disciplines of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Earth System Science, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

AghaKouchak, Amir

Easterling, David

Hsu, Kuolin

Schubert, Siegfried

Sorooshian, Soroosh

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Statistical Indices for Diagnosing and Detecting Changes in Extremes 2. Statistical Methods for Nonstationary Extremes3. Bayesian Methods for Nonstationary Extreme Value Analysis4. Return Periods and Return Levels Under Climate Change5. Multivariate Extreme Value Methods6. Methods of Tail Dependence Estimation 7. Stochastic Models of Climate Extremes:Theory and Observations8. Methods of Projecting Future Changes in Extremes9. Climate Variability and Weather Extremes: Model-Simulated and Historical Data10. Uncertainties in Observed Changes in Climate Extremes 11. Uncertainties in Projections of Future Changes in Extremes12. Global Data Sets for Analysis of Climate Extremes13. Nonstationarity in Extremes and Engineering DesignIndex