Potential influences on the United Kingdom's floods of winter 2013/14

C Huntingford, T Marsh, AA Scaife, EJ Kendon… - Nature Climate …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract During the winter of 2013/14, much of the UK experienced repeated intense rainfall
events and flooding. This had a considerable impact on property and transport infrastructure …

Changes in winter precipitation extremes for the western United States under a warmer climate as simulated by regional climate models

F Dominguez, E Rivera… - Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We find a consistent and statistically significant increase in the intensity of future extreme
winter precipitation events over the western United States, as simulated by an ensemble of …

Return periods and return levels under climate change

D Cooley - Extremes in a changing climate: Detection, analysis …, 2012 - Springer
We investigate the notions of return period and return level for a nonstationary climate. We
discuss two general methods for communicating risk. The first eschews the term return …

Very extreme seasonal precipitation in the NARCCAP ensemble: model performance and projections

MF Wehner - Climate Dynamics, 2013 - Springer
Seasonal extreme daily precipitation is analyzed in the ensemble of NARCAPP regional
climate models. Significant variation in these models' abilities to reproduce observed …

Multi-model ensemble analysis of runoff extremes for climate change impact assessments

MR Najafi, H Moradkhani - Journal of Hydrology, 2015 - Elsevier
In this study multi-model ensemble analysis of extreme runoff is performed based on eight
regional climate models (RCMs) provided by the North American Regional Climate Change …

Trends in extreme rainfall frequency in the contiguous United States: Attribution to climate change and climate variability modes

S Armal, N Devineni, R Khanbilvardi - Journal of Climate, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study presents a systematic analysis for identifying and attributing trends in the annual
frequency of extreme rainfall events across the contiguous United States to climate change …

Bayesian hierarchical modeling of extreme hourly precipitation in Norway

AV Dyrrdal, A Lenkoski, TL Thorarinsdottir… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial maps of extreme precipitation are a critical component of flood estimation in
hydrological modeling, as well as in the planning and design of important infrastructure. This …

Recent trends of extreme temperature indices for the Iberian Peninsula

D Fonseca, MJ Carvalho, M Marta-Almeida… - … of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 2016 - Elsevier
Climate change and extreme climate events have a significant impact on societies and
ecosystems. As a result, climate change projections, especially related with extreme …

[HTML][HTML] Statistical downscaling of regional climate model output to achieve projections of precipitation extremes

EM Laflamme, E Linder, Y Pan - Weather and climate extremes, 2016 - Elsevier
In this work we perform a statistical downscaling by applying a CDF transformation function
to local-level daily precipitation extremes (from NCDC station data) and corresponding …

[PDF][PDF] A survey of spatial extremes: Measuring spatial dependence and modeling spatial effects

D Cooley, J Cisewski, RJ Erhardt, S Jeon… - REVSTAT-Statistical …, 2012 - cdr.lib.unc.edu
We survey the current practice of analyzing spatial extreme data, which lies at the
intersection of extreme value theory and geostatistics. Characterizations of multivariate max …