Statistical modeling of hot spells and heat waves

Climate Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 191-205

  Furrer, Eva M ^a,d   Katz, Richard W ^a   Walter, Marcus D ^b   Furrer, Reinhard ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Clustering of extremes; Generalized Pareto distribution; Heat wave simulator; Point process approach

Indexed keywords

PARETO PRINCIPLE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATORS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME SERIES; WIND EFFECTS;

ARIZONA; CLUSTERING OF EXTREMES; EXTREME VALUE; EXTREME VALUE ANALYSIS; EXTREME VALUE THEORY; FORT COLLINS; GENERALIZED PARETO DISTRIBUTIONS; GEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTION; HEAT WAVES; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PARIS , FRANCE; POINT PROCESS; SCALE PARAMETER; STATISTICAL MODELING; STATISTICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL THEORY; SUMMER HEAT; TEMPORAL DEPENDENCE; UNIVARIATE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIURNAL VARIATION; EXTREME EVENT; HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; POINT SOURCE; TIME SERIES;

EID: 78649876843     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00924     Document Type: Article

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