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The thesis work was in two major parts: development and testing of
a new approach to detecting and tracking tropical cyclones in
climate models; and application of an extreme value statistical
approach to enable assessment of changes in weather extremes from
climate models. The tracking algorithm applied a creative
phase-space approach to differentiate between modeled tropical
cyclones and their mid-latitude cousins. A feature here was the
careful attention to sensitivity to choice of selection parameters,
which is considerable. The major finding was that the changes over
time were relatively insensitive to these details. This new
approach will improve and add confidence to future assessments of
climate impacts on hurricanes. The extremes approach utilized the
Generalized Pareto Distribution (one of the standard approaches to
statistics of extremes) applied to present and future hurricane
distributions as modeled by a regional climate model, then applied
the changes to current observations to extract the changes in the
extremes. Since climate models cannot resolve these extremes
directly, this provides an excellent method of determining weather
extremes in general. This is of considerable societal importance as
we are most vulnerable to such extremes and knowledge of their
changes enables improved planning and adaptation strategies.
The thesis work was in two major parts: development and testing of
a new approach to detecting and
tracking tropical cyclones in climate models; and application of an
extreme value statistical approach to
enable assessment of changes in weather extremes from climate
models.
The tracking algorithm applied a creative phase-space approach to
differentiate between modeled tropical
cyclones and their mid-latitude cousins. A feature here was the
careful attention to sensitivity to choice of
selection parameters, which is considerable. The major finding was
that the changes over time were
relatively insensitive to these details. This new approach will
improve and add confidence to future
assessments of climate impacts on hurricanes.
The extremes approach utilized the Generalized Pareto Distribution
(one of the standard approaches to
statistics of extremes) applied to present and future hurricane
distributions as modeled by a regional
climate model, then applied the changes to current observations to
extract the changes in the extremes.
Since climate models cannot resolve these extremes directly, this
provides an excellent method of
determining weather extremes in general. This is of considerable
societal importance as we are most
vulnerable to such extremes and knowledge of their changes enables
improved planning and adaptation
strategies.
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