Non-stationary extreme value analysis in a changing climate

Climatic Change

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 353-369

  Cheng, Linyin ^a   AghaKouchak, Amir ^a   Gilleland, Eric ^b   Katz, Richard W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; RISK PERCEPTION; VALUE ENGINEERING;

ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; EXCEEDANCE PROBABILITY; EXTREME VALUE ANALYSIS; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84939932917     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1254-5     Document Type: Article

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