A probabilistic analysis of wind gusts using extreme value statistics

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 615-629

  Friederichs, Petra ^a   Göber, Martin ^b   Bentzien, Sabrina ^a   Lenz, Anne ^a   Krampitz, Rebekka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA-WIDE; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; EXCEEDANCE PROBABILITY; EXTREME VALUE STATISTICS; EXTREME VALUE THEORY; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; GERMANY; GUST FACTORS; MEAN-WINDS; OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS; OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY FORECASTS; QUANTILE REGRESSION; SKILL SCORE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STATISTICAL MODELING; STATISTICAL MODELS; VERTICAL VELOCITY; WEATHER SERVICES; WEATHER STATIONS; WIND GUST; WIND SHEARS; WIND VELOCITIES; WINTER STORMS;

PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STORMS; VELOCITY; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

GUST; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; WEATHER STATION; WIND SHEAR; WIND VELOCITY;

GERMANY;

EID: 77949617925     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2009/0413     Document Type: Article

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