In Extremis Disruptive Events and Trends in Climate and Hydrology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kropp, Jürgen (Editor), Schellnhuber, Hans-Joachim (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Climate change.; Hydrogeology.; Oceanography.; Atmospheric sciences.; Statistics.; Environmental sciences.; Earth Sciences.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.; Environmental Physics.; Atmospheric Sciences.

The book addresses a weakness of current methodologies used in extreme value assessment, i.e. the assumption of stationarity, which is not given in reality. With respect to this issue a lot of new developed technologies are presented, i.e. influence of trends vs. internal correlations, quantitative...