In Extremis: Disruptive Events and Trends in Climate and Hydrology

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642422608
• ISBN13: 9783642422607
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"