Abstract The Little Ice Age (LIA), which lasted from about 1250 to 1860 AD, was likely the
coldest period of the last 8000 years. Using new documentary data and analyses of alpine …

Precipitation downscaling improves the coarse resolution and poor representation of
precipitation in global climate models and helps end users to assess the likely hydrological …

Extreme value theory is unique as a statistical discipline in that it develops techniques and
models for describing the unusual rather than the usual. As an abstract study of random …

This is the second edition of Climate Time Series Analysis which was first published in 2010.
In this digital age, a second edition means not that the first edition of a book has been sold …

Over the past five decades, several approaches for estimating probabilities of extreme still
water levels have been developed. Currently, different methods are applied not only on …

Downscaling precipitation is a difficult challenge for the climate community. We propose and
study a new stochastic weather ty** approach to perform such a task. In addition to …

The aim of this paper is to document the evolution of glaciers in the tropical Andes (between
10° N and 16° S) for the last millennium, based on moraines dated by lichenometry and …

A peaks-over-threshold (POT) approach is used to study trends in extreme rainfall over the
Iberian Peninsula (IP) at a daily scale. Records from 52 observatories regularly distributed …

Heavy rainfall trends in a region of south-eastern South America during 1959–2002 were
discussed using daily data of 52 meteorological stations of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay …

This article focuses on extreme events of high and low temperatures and precipitation and
their amplitude and frequency changes over the last 50 years in Greece. Sixteen climate …