Estimating extremes in climate change simulations using the peaks-over-threshold method with a non-stationary threshold

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 72, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 55-68

  Kyselý, Jan ^a   Picek, Jan ^b   Beranová, Romana ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LIBEREC   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extreme temperatures; Extreme value analysis; Global climate models; Peaks over threshold method; Poisson process; Quantile regression

Indexed keywords

EXTREME TEMPERATURES; EXTREME VALUE ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; PEAKS-OVER-THRESHOLD METHOD; POISSON PROCESS; QUANTILE REGRESSION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DIURNAL VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; POISSON RATIO; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EUROPE;

EID: 78650388119     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.03.006     Document Type: Article

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