Extreme climatic events over Vietnam from ­observational data and RegCM3 projections

Extreme climatic events: examples from the alpine region

This paper provides a general overview of climatic extremes, how they may be defined and what they represent both in statistical and in physical terms, as well as the impacts they are capable of generating. A particular case study, namely the heat wave that affected many parts of Europe from June-August 2003, will be discussed in some detail. The final part of the paper will investigate, on the...

Will Extreme Climatic Events Facilitate Biological Invasions?

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org E are experiencing not only gradual shifts in mean climate conditions but also dramatic changes in climate variability and prevalence of extreme climatic events (ECEs). ECEs such as droughts, floods, severe storms, and heat waves are changing in frequency, magnitude, timing, and duration, depending on the region and the specific cli...

Extreme climatic events shape arid and semiarid ecosystems

tally a climatic and oceanographic phenomenon, but it has profound effects on terrestrial ecosystems as well. Although the ecological effects of ENSO are becoming increasingly known from a wide range of terrestrial ecosystems (Holmgren et al. 2001; Wright 2005), their impacts have been most intensively studied in arid and semiarid systems. Because inter-annual variability in precipitation is su...

Extreme Climatic Events as Drivers of Ecosystem Change

Bayesian analysis for extreme climatic events: A review

In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier's archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t This article reviews Bayesian analysis methods applied to extreme climatic data. We pa...