Flooding in Nigeria: a review of its occurrence and impacts and approaches to modelling flood data

N Umar, A Gray - International Journal of Environmental Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper surveys flood mapping and modelling in Nigeria in regard to frequency and
impact of floods in the last decade. The aim is to understand the frequency and patterns of …

Quantifying thermal extremes and biological variation to predict evolutionary responses to changing climate

JG Kingsolver, LB Buckley - … Transactions of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Central ideas from thermal biology, including thermal performance curves and tolerances,
have been widely used to evaluate how changes in environmental means and variances …

Multivariate standardized drought index: a parametric multi-index model

Z Hao, A AghaKouchak - Advances in Water Resources, 2013 - Elsevier
Defining droughts based on a single variable/index (eg, precipitation, soil moisture, or
runoff) may not be sufficient for reliable risk assessment and decision-making. In this paper …

Non-stationary extreme value analysis in a changing climate

L Cheng, A AghaKouchak, E Gilleland, RW Katz - Climatic change, 2014 - Springer
This paper introduces a framework for estimating stationary and non-stationary return levels,
return periods, and risks of climatic extremes using Bayesian inference. This framework is …

Multi-criteria analysis framework for potential flood prone areas mapping

G Papaioannou, L Vasiliades, A Loukas - Water resources management, 2015 - Springer
A fundamental component of the European natural disaster management policy is the
detection of potential flood-prone areas, which is directly connected to the European …

[HTML][HTML] A nonparametric multivariate multi-index drought monitoring framework

Z Hao, A AghaKouchak - Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Accurate and reliable drought monitoring is essential to drought mitigation efforts and
reduction of social vulnerability. A variety of indices, such as the standardized precipitation …

Changes in concurrent monthly precipitation and temperature extremes

Z Hao, A AghaKouchak, TJ Phillips - Environmental Research …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
While numerous studies have addressed changes in climate extremes, analyses of
concurrence of climate extremes are scarce, and climate change effects on joint extremes …

Use of the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model to forecast near-term regional temperature and precipitation

Y Lai, DA Dzombak - Weather and forecasting, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
A data-driven approach for obtaining near-term (2–20 years) regional temperature and
precipitation projections utilizing local historical observations was established in this study to …

Computation of extreme heat waves in climate models using a large deviation algorithm

F Ragone, J Wouters, F Bouchet - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Studying extreme events and how they evolve in a changing climate is one of the most
important current scientific challenges. Starting from complex climate models, a key difficulty …

A multivariate method for evaluating safety from conflict extremes in real time

C Fu, T Sayed - Analytic methods in accident research, 2022 - Elsevier
Several studies have advocated the use of extreme value theory (EVT) traffic conflict models
for real-time crash risk prediction using real-time safety indices such as the risk of crash (RC) …