Spatial extreme value analysis to project extremes of large-scale indicators for severe weather

Environmetrics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 418-432

  Gilleland, Eric ^a   Brown, Barbara G ^a   Ammann, Caspar M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional extreme value modeling; Reanalysis data; River flow; Severe storms

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXTREME EVENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIVER FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

NORTH AMERICA; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884756302     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.2234     Document Type: Article

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