In Extremis : Disruptive Events and Trends in Climate and Hydrology /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kropp, Jürgen. (Editor), Schellnhuber, Hans-Joachim. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edition:1st ed. 2011.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. General
  • The Threat of Climate Extremes: The Need of New Assessment Methodologies
  • Intense Precipitation and High Floods - Observations and Projections
  • Wavelet Spectral and Cross Spectral Analysis
  • Part II. Extremes and Trend Detection
  • Trend Detection in River Floods
  • Extreme Value Analysis Considering Trends
  • Extreme Value and Trend Analysis based on Statistical Modelling of Precipitation Time Series
  • Part III. Extremes and Correlations
  • The statistics of Return Intervals, Maxima and Centennial Events under the Influence of Long-Term Correlations
  • Detrended Fluctuation Studies of Long-Term Persistence and Multifractality of Precipitation and River Runoff Records
  • Extraction of Long-term Structures from Southern German Runoff Data by Means of Linear and Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction
  • Part IV. Assessing Uncertainty
  • The Bootstrap in Climate Risk Analysis
  • Flood Level Confidence Intervals
  • A Review on the Pettitt-Test
  • Seasonality Effects on Nonlinear Properties of Hydrometeorological Records
  • Part V. Spatial Issues
  • Regional Determination of Historical Heavy Rain for Reconstruction of Extreme Flood Events
  • Development of Regional Flood Frequency Relationships for Gauged and Ungauged Catchments Using L-Moments
  • Spatial Correlations of River Runoffs in a Catchment.