Precipitation downscaling under climate change: Recent developments to bridge the gap between dynamical models and the end user

D Maraun, F Wetterhall, AM Ireson… - Reviews of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Precipitation downscaling improves the coarse resolution and poor representation of
precipitation in global climate models and helps end users to assess the likely hydrological …

[图书][B] An introduction to statistical modeling of extreme values

S Coles, J Bawa, L Trenner, P Dorazio - 2001 - Springer
Extreme value theory is unique as a statistical discipline in that it develops techniques and
models for describing the unusual rather than the usual. As an abstract study of random …

[HTML][HTML] High risk of unprecedented UK rainfall in the current climate

V Thompson, NJ Dunstone, AA Scaife… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
In winter 2013/14 a succession of storms hit the UK leading to record rainfall and flooding in
many regions including south east England. In the Thames river valley there was …

The value of high-resolution Met Office regional climate models in the simulation of multihourly precipitation extremes

SC Chan, EJ Kendon, HJ Fowler… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Extreme value theory is used as a diagnostic for two high-resolution (12-km parameterized
convection and 1.5-km explicit convection) Met Office regional climate model (RCM) …

Does increasing the spatial resolution of a regional climate model improve the simulated daily precipitation?

SC Chan, EJ Kendon, HJ Fowler, S Blenkinsop… - Climate dynamics, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Three different resolution (50, 12, and 1.5 km) regional climate model simulations
are compared in terms of their ability to simulate moderate and high daily precipitation …

Modeling hydrologic and water quality extremes in a changing climate: A statistical approach based on extreme value theory

E Towler, B Rajagopalan, E Gilleland… - Water Resources …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Although information about climate change and its implications is becoming increasingly
available to water utility managers, additional tools are needed to translate this information …

Characterisation of extreme winter precipitation in Mediterranean coastal sites and associated anomalous atmospheric circulation patterns

A Toreti, E Xoplaki, D Maraun… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2010 - nhess.copernicus.org
We present an analysis of daily extreme precipitation events for the extended winter season
(October–March) at 20 Mediterranean coastal sites covering the period 1950–2006. The …

[HTML][HTML] Quality‐control of an hourly rainfall dataset and climatology of extremes for the UK

S Blenkinsop, E Lewis, SC Chan… - International Journal of …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sub‐daily rainfall extremes may be associated with flash flooding, particularly in urban
areas but, compared with extremes on daily timescales, have been relatively little studied in …

Modelling time series extremes

V Chavez-Demoulin, AC Davison - REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, 2012 - infoscience.epfl.ch
MODELLING TIME SERIES EXTREMES Page 1 REVSTAT – Statistical Journal Volume 10,
Number 1, March 2012, 109–133 MODELLING TIME SERIES EXTREMES Authors: V …

Statistical downscaling of temperature with the random forest model

B Pang, J Yue, G Zhao, Z Xu - Advances in Meteorology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The issues with downscaling the outputs of a global climate model (GCM) to a regional scale
that are appropriate to hydrological impact studies are investigated using the random forest …