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Bibliography: Statistics of extremes in climate change
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 Click here to access a bibliography of recent papers, appearing in the atmospheric science and related literature, applying the statistics of extremes to climate change
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Books and lecture notes on statistics of extremes
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An Introduction to Statistical Modeling of Extreme Values by Stuart Coles (Springer, 2001)
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Statistical Analysis of Extreme Values with Applications to Insurance, Finance, Hydrology, and Other Fields by R.-D. Reiss and M. Thomas (Birkhauser, Third Edition, 2007) |
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Lecture notes on environmental statistics by Richard Smith (see Chapter 8 on extremes) |
Reviews on applying statistics of extremes to weather/climate/related areas
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IPCC Workshop on Changes in Extreme Weather and Climate Events, Beijing, China, 11-13 June 2002 (see Section 7 on statistical methods, pp. 31-32).
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Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate, U.S. Climate Change Science Program, June 2008 (see Chapter 2).
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Engeland, K., H. Hisdal, and A. Frigessi, 2004: "Practical extreme value modelling of hydrological floods and droughts: A case study." Extremes, 7, 5-30.
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Garrett, C., and P. Muller, 2008: "Extreme events." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 89, ES45-ES56.
(Online Supplement)
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Katz, R.W., G.S. Brush, and M.B. Parlange, 2005: "Statistics of extremes: Modeling ecological disturbances." Ecology, 86, 1124-1134.
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Katz, R.W., M.B. Parlange, and P. Naveau, 2002: "Statistics of extremes in hydrology." Advances in Water Resources, 25, 1287-1304.
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Naveau, P., M. Nogaj, C. Ammann, P. Yiou, D. Cooley, and V. Jomelli, 2005: "Statistical methods for the analysis of climate extremes." Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 337, 1013-1022.
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Palutikof, J.P., B.B. Brabson, D.H. Lister, and S.T. Adcock, 1999: "A review of methods to calculate extreme wind speeds." Meteorological Applications, 6, 119-132.
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Simulation of extremes by stochastic weather generators
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Furrer, E.M., and R.W. Katz, 2008: "Improving the simulation of extreme precipitation events by stochastic weather generators." Water Resources Research, 44, W12439, doi:10.1029/2008WR007316.
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Kysely, K., and M. Dubrovsky, 2005: "Simulation of extreme temperature events by a stochastic weather generator: Effects of interdiurnal and interannual variability reproduction." International Journal of Climatology, 25, 251-269.
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Qian, B., S. Gameda, and H. Hayhoe, 2008: "Performance of stochastic weather generators LARS-WG and AAFC-WG for reproducing daily extremes of diverse Canadian climates." Climate Research, 37, 17-33.
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Semenov, M.A., 2008: "Simulation of extreme weather events by a stochastic weather generator." Climate Research, 35, 203-212.
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Statistics of breaking records
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Glick, N., 1978: "Breaking records and breaking boards." American Mathematical Monthly, 85, 2-26.
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Verification of forecasts of extreme weather events
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Web page by Barbara Casati on
Analysis and Verification of Weather and Climate Extremes
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Ferro, C.A.T., 2007: "A probability model for verifying deterministic forecasts of extreme events." Weather and Forecasting, 22, 1089-1100.
Katz, R.W., 2006: "Forecast verification of extremes: Use of extreme value theory." American Meteorological Society, 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA.
Stephenson, D.B., B. Casati, C.A.T. Ferro and C.A. Wilson, 2008:
"The extreme dependency score: A non-vanishing measure for forecasts of rare events." Meteorological Applications, 15, 41-50.
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