Extremes in a Changing Climate

• 1. Statistical Indices for Diagnosing and Detecting Changes in Extremes.- 2. Statistical Methods for Nonstationary Extremes.- 3. Bayesian Methods for Nonstationary Extreme Value Analysis.- 4. Return Periods and Return Levels Under Climate Change.- 5. Multivariate Extreme Value Methods.- 6. Methods of Extreme Value Index and Tail Dependence Estimation.- 7. Stochastic Models of Climate Extremes:Theory and Observations.- 8. Methods of Projecting Future Changes in Extremes.- 9. Climate Variability and Weather Extremes: Model-Simulated and Historical Data.- 10. Uncertainties in Observed Changes in Climate Extremes.- 11. Uncertainties in Projections of Future Changes in Extremes.- 12. Global Data Sets for Analysis of Climate Extremes.- 13. Nonstationarity in Extremes and Engineering Design.- Index.

"This edited volume is comprised of 13 chapters emerging from a wide range of topics on detecting extremes, trend analysis and associated uncertainties with such analysis. ... The organization of the text makes it useful equally as a graduate textbook and as a reference book. ... Extremes in a Changing Climate: Detection, Analysis and Uncertainty successfully goes beyond achieving its objectives and goals, and makes for a great read." (S. E. Ahmed, Technometrics, Vol. 57 (1), February, 2015)