Downscaling extremes: A comparison of extreme value distributions in point-source and gridded precipitation data
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Mannshardt-Shamseldin, Elizabeth C.
- Other Affiliation: Duke University
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Smith, Richard L.
- Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Sain, Stephan R.
- Other Affiliation: National Center for Atmospheric Research
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Mearns, Linda O.
- Other Affiliation: National Center for Atmospheric Research
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Cooley, Daniel
- Other Affiliation: Colorado State University
- Abstract
- There is substantial empirical and climatological evidence that precipitation extremes have become more extreme during the twentieth century, and that this trend is likely to continue as global warming becomes more intense. However, understanding these issues is limited by a fundamental issue of spatial scaling: most evidence of past trends comes from rain gauge data, whereas trends into the future are produced by climate models, which rely on gridded aggregates. To study this further, we fit the Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) distribution to the right tail of the distribution of both rain gauge and gridded events. The results of this modeling exercise confirm that return values computed from rain gauge data are typically higher than those computed from gridded data; however, the size of the difference is somewhat surprising, with the rain gauge data exhibiting return values sometimes two or three times that of the gridded data. The main contribution of this paper is the development of a family of regression relationships between the two sets of return values that also take spatial variations into account. Based on these results, we now believe it is possible to project future changes in precipitation extremes at the point-location level based on results from climate models.
- Date of publication
- 2010
- Keyword
- Analyse tendance
- Numerical analysis
- Condition number
- Valeur extrême
- Pluie
- Non parametric estimation
- Numerical linear algebra
- Trend analysis
- Analyse numérique
- Statistical estimation
- Régression statistique
- Distribution function
- Distribution tail
- Fonction généralisée
- Extreme value
- Variation spatiale
- Queue distribution
- Indice conditionnement
- Generalized function
- Fonction répartition
- Rain
- Spatial variation
- Statistical regression
- Algèbre linéaire numérique
- DOI
- Identifier
- Onescience id: 908fca2d45f8fe6f7803a60c0cb5d2c0f53d9ed0
- Publisher DOI: https://doi.org/10.1214/09-AOAS287
- Resource type
- Article
- Rights statement
- In Copyright
- Journal title
- The Annals of Applied Statistics
- Journal volume
- 6
- Journal issue
- 1
- Page start
- 484
- Page end
- 502
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1932-6157
- 1941-7330
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