Spatio-temporal models for large-scale indicators of extreme weather

Environmetrics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 294-303

  Heaton, Matthew J ^a   Katzfuss, Matthias ^b   Ramachandar, Shahla ^c   Pedings, Kathryn ^d   Gilleland, Eric ^e   Mannshardt Shamseldin, Elizabeth ^a   Smith, Richard L ^f  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^d Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Coregionalization; Extreme value; Point process; Reanalysis data; Severe storm

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; ECONOMIC IMPACT; REGIONALIZATION; SEVERE WEATHER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THUNDERSTORM; TORNADO;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79954600086     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.1050     Document Type: Article

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