Quantifying changes in climate variability and extremes: Pitfalls and their overcoming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 9990-9998

  Sippel, Sebastian ^a,b   Zscheischler, Jakob ^a,b   Heimann, Martin ^a   Otto, Friederike E L ^c   Peters, Jonas ^d   Mahecha, Miguel D ^a,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^e GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

extreme events; normalization; statistics; variability

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; STATISTICS;

CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EXTREME EVENTS; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; NORMALIZATION; NORMALIZED TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES; VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXTREME EVENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84956964216     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066307     Document Type: Article

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