Social‐environmental extremes: Rethinking extraordinary events as outcomes of interacting biophysical and social systems

JK Balch, V Iglesias, AE Braswell, MW Rossi… - Earth's …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme droughts, heat waves, fires, hurricanes, floods, and landslides cause the largest
losses in the United States, and globally, from natural hazards linked to weather and climate …

A Bayesian hierarchical approach to multivariate nonstationary hydrologic frequency analysis

C Bracken, KD Holman, B Rajagopalan… - Water Resources …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We present a general Bayesian hierarchical framework for conducting nonstationary
frequency analysis of multiple hydrologic variables. In this, annual maxima from each …

Spatial dependence of floods shaped by spatiotemporal variations in meteorological and land‐surface processes

MI Brunner, E Gilleland, A Wood… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Floods often affect large regions and cause adverse societal impacts. Regional flood hazard
and risk assessments therefore require a realistic representation of spatial flood …

Designing ecological climate change impact assessments to reflect key climatic drivers

HR Sofaer, JJ Barsugli, CS Jarnevich… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying the climatic drivers of an ecological system is a key step in assessing its
vulnerability to climate change. The climatic dimensions to which a species or system is …

Spatial-temporal multivariate semi-Bayesian hierarchical framework for extreme precipitation frequency analysis

Á Ossandón, B Rajagopalan, W Kleiber - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
We present a semi-Bayesian hierarchical modeling framework for conducting space–time
frequency analysis of precipitation extremes over a large domain. In this framework, the data …

A Bayesian hierarchical network model for daily streamflow ensemble forecasting

A Ossandon, B Rajagopalan, U Lall… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract A novel Bayesian Hierarchical Network Model (BHNM) for ensemble forecasts of
daily streamflow is presented that uses the spatial dependence induced by the river network …

Extreme value metastatistical analysis of remotely sensed rainfall in ungauged areas: Spatial downscaling and error modelling

E Zorzetto, M Marani - Advances in Water Resources, 2020 - Elsevier
The quantitative validation of rainfall statistics obtained from space-borne sensors, and the
evaluation of the associated uncertainty are hindered by i) the limited coverage of rain …

[HTML][HTML] Stochastic simulation of streamflow and spatial extremes: a continuous, wavelet-based approach

MI Brunner, E Gilleland - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
Stochastically generated streamflow time series are used for various water management
and hazard estimation applications. They provide realizations of plausible but as yet …

Modeling concurrent hydroclimatic extremes with parametric multivariate extreme value models

S Sharma, PP Mujumdar - Water Resources Research, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Estimating the dependence structure of concurrent extremes is a fundamental issue for
accurate assessment of their occurrence probabilities. Identifying the extremal dependence …

Extreme-value analysis for the characterization of extremes in water resources: A generalized workflow and case study on New Mexico monsoon precipitation

E Towler, D Llewellyn, A Prein, E Gilleland - Weather and Climate Extremes, 2020 - Elsevier
Water managers need non-stationary tools to better characterize precipitation extremes.
Statistical approaches based on extreme value theory (EVT) are increasingly being used …