Linear Rainfall Features and Their Association with Rainfall Extremes near Melbourne, Australia

Trends in Rainfall Extremes

Mining Extremes: Severe Rainfall and Climate Change

Theoretical developments for the analysis and modeling of extreme value data have tended to focus on limiting cases and assumptions of independence. However, massive datasets from models and sensors, space-time dimensionality, complex dependence structures, long-memory, long-range and low frequency processes all motivate the need for sophisticated methods for correlated and finite data that fol...

Bayesian hierarchical modelling of rainfall extremes

Understanding weather and climate extremes is important for assessing, and adapting to, the potential impacts of climate change. The design of hydraulic structures such as dams, drainage and sewers, for instance, relies in part on accurate information regarding patterns of extreme rainfall occurring at various locations and at different durations. Deriving this kind of information is challengin...

Multidecadal Evaluation of WRF Downscaling Capabilities over Western Australia in Simulating Rainfall and Temperature Extremes

The authors evaluate a 30-yr (1981–2010) Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) Model regional climate simulation over the southwest of Western Australia (SWWA), a region with a Mediterranean climate, using ERA-Interim boundary conditions. The analysis assesses the spatial and temporal characteristics of climate extremes, using a selection of climate indices, with an emphasis on metrics that are r...

On spatial extremes: with application to a rainfall problem

We consider daily rainfall observations at 32 stations in the province of North Holland (The Netherlands) during 30 years. Let Q be the total rainfall in this area on one day. An important question is: what is the amount of rainfall Q that is exceeded once in 100 years? This is clearly a problem belonging to extreme value theory. Also it is a genuinely spatial problem. Recently, a theory of ext...