Extremes in a Changing Climate : Detection, Analysis and Uncertainty - AghaKouchak, Amir.; Easterling, David; Hsu, Kuolin; Schubert, Siegfried; Sorooshian, Soroosh; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
1. Statistical Indices for Diagnosing and Detecting Changes in Extremes -- 2. Statistical Methods for Nonstationary Extremes -- 3. Bayesian Methods for Nonstationary Extreme Value Analysis -- 4. Return Periods and Return Levels Under Climate Change -- 5. Multivariate Extreme Value Methods -- 6. Methods of Extreme Value Index and Tail Dependence Estimation -- 7. Stochastic Models of Climate Extremes:Theory and Observations -- 8. Methods of Projecting Future Changes in Extremes -- 9. Climate Variability and Weather Extremes: Model-Simulated and Historical Data -- 10. Uncertainties in Observed Changes in Climate Extremes -- 11. Uncertainties in Projections of Future Changes in Extremes -- 12. Global Data Sets for Analysis of Climate Extremes -- 13. Nonstationarity in Extremes and Engineering Design -- Index.
Keywords: Atmospheric sciences; Climatology; Statistics .; Civil engineering; Atmospheric Sciences; Climatology; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences; Civil Engineering