Threshold detection for the generalized Pareto distribution: Review of representative methods and application to the NOAA NCDC daily rainfall database

A Langousis, A Mamalakis, M Puliga… - Water Resources …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In extreme excess modeling, one fits a generalized Pareto (GP) distribution to rainfall
excesses above a properly selected threshold u. The latter is generally determined using …

PMP and climate variability and change: a review

JD Salas, ML Anderson, SM Papalexiou… - Journal of Hydrologic …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
A state-of-the-art review on the probable maximum precipitation (PMP) as it relates to
climate variability and change is presented. The review consists of an examination of the …

Assessing performance of porous pavements and bioretention cells for stormwater management in response to probable climatic changes

M Wang, D Zhang, Y Cheng, SK Tan - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
The effectiveness of porous pavement (PP) and bio-retention cells (BCs) under the influence
of potential climate change was investigated based on representative concentration …

Continuous hydrologic modelling for small and ungauged basins: A comparison of eight rainfall models for sub-daily runoff simulations

S Grimaldi, E Volpi, A Langousis, SM Papalexiou… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Continuous hydrologic modelling is a natural evolution of the event-based design approach
in modern hydrology. It improves the rainfall-runoff transformation and provides the …

Non-stationary Intensity-Duration-Frequency curves integrating information concerning teleconnections and climate change.

TBMJ Ouarda, LA Yousef, C Charron - International Journal of …, 2019 - espace.inrs.ca
Rainfall Intensity‐Duration‐Frequency (IDF) curves are commonly used for the design of
water resources infrastructure. Numerous studies reported non‐stationarity in …

Random fields simplified: Preserving marginal distributions, correlations, and intermittency, with applications from rainfall to humidity

SM Papalexiou, F Serinaldi - Water Resources Research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nature manifests itself in space and time. The spatiotemporal complexity of processes such
as precipitation, temperature, and wind, does not allow purely deterministic modeling …

Extreme events in a forced BVP oscillator: Experimental and numerical studies

B Thangavel, S Srinivasan, T Kathamuthu - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, we report the existence of extreme events in the well known Bonhoeffer-van der
Pol (BVP) oscillator under the excitation of a periodically forced voltage. Extreme events …

The Spatiotemporal Evolution of Rainfall Extremes in a Changing Climate: A CONUS‐Wide Assessment Based on Multifractal Scaling Arguments

S Emmanouil, A Langousis, EI Nikolopoulos… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Given the rapidly changing climate, accurate spatiotemporal information on the evolution of
extreme rainfall events is required for flood risk assessment and the design of resilient …

Quantitative assessment of annual maxima, peaks-over-threshold and multifractal parametric approaches in estimating intensity-duration-frequency curves from short …

S Emmanouil, A Langousis, EI Nikolopoulos… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The present study uses hourly rainfall measurements from 36 raingauge stations in the
northeastern United States with more than 55 years of recordings, to assess the accuracy …

Dynamical properties and extremes of Northern Hemisphere climate fields over the past 60 years

D Faranda, G Messori… - Nonlinear Processes …, 2017 - npg.copernicus.org
Atmospheric dynamics are described by a set of partial differential equations yielding an
infinite-dimensional phase space. However, the actual trajectories followed by the system …