Event-adjusted evaluation of weather and climate extremes

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F14%3A10282297" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/14:10282297 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/68378289:_____/14:00426187

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/14/473/2014/nhess-14-473-2014.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/14/473/2014/nhess-14-473-2014.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-473-2014" target="_blank" >10.5194/nhess-14-473-2014</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Event-adjusted evaluation of weather and climate extremes

Original language description

After an overview of existing methods, we present a novel method of "event-adjusted" evaluation of extremeness of weather and climate events. It is based on optimization of both the considered area and the time duration for every event. The method consists of three steps: (i) estimation of return periods of a representative variable at individual sites, performed separately for various time windows; (ii) spatial interpolation of the point return period data; and (iii) searching the area and the time window in which the extremeness of the event was maximum. The extremeness is quantified as the common logarithm of the spatial geometric mean of the return periods multiplied by the radius of a circle of the same area as the one over which the geometric mean is taken. The maximum product is referred to as the Weather Extremity Index (WEI). Two precipitation events, which affected the Czech Republic in May and in August 2010, were evaluated by the WEI for illustration. Validation of the meth

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

DG - Atmospheric sciences, meteorology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP209%2F11%2F1990" target="_blank" >GAP209/11/1990: Extreme weather events in the Czech Republic and their relationship to meso-alpha meteorological patterns</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

ISSN

1561-8633

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

473-483

UT code for WoS article

000332336700022

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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