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 …

Floods and climate: emerging perspectives for flood risk assessment and management

B Merz, J Aerts, K Arnbjerg-Nielsen… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2014 - nhess.copernicus.org
Flood estimation and flood management have traditionally been the domain of hydrologists,
water resources engineers and statisticians, and disciplinary approaches abound. Dominant …

Evaluation of climate models

G Flato, J Marotzke, B Abiodun, P Braconnot… - Climate change 2013 …, 2014 - pure.mpg.de
Climate models have continued to be developed and improved since the AR4, and many
models have been extended into Earth System models by including the representation of …

[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 …

Extreme cold winter temperatures in Europe under the influence of North Atlantic atmospheric blocking

J Sillmann, M Croci-Maspoli, M Kallache… - Journal of …, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
North Atlantic atmospheric blocking conditions explain part of the winter climate variability in
Europe, being associated with anomalous cold winter temperatures. In this study, the …

[图书][B] Impacts of climate change on rainfall extremes and urban drainage systems

P Willems, J Olsson - 2012 - library.oapen.org
Impacts of Climate Change on Rainfall Extremes and Urban Drainage Systems provides a
state-of-the-art overview of existing methodologies and relevant results related to the …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in the duration of European wet and dry spells during the last 60 years

O Zolina, C Simmer, K Belyaev, SK Gulev… - Journal of …, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Changes in the Duration of European Wet and Dry Spells during the Last 60 Years in:
Journal of Climate Volume 26 Issue 6 (2013) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

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 …

Nonstationary frequency analysis of annual maximum rainfall using climate covariates

L Vasiliades, P Galiatsatou, A Loukas - Water Resources Management, 2015 - Springer
The perception that hydrometeorological processes are non stationary on timescales that
are applicable to extreme value analysis is recently well documented due to natural climate …

Long-term changes in annual maximum snow depth and snowfall in Switzerland based on extreme value statistics

C Marty, J Blanchet - Climatic Change, 2012 - Springer
Mountain snow cover is an important source of water and essential for winter tourism in
Alpine countries. However, large amounts of snow can lead to destructive avalanches …