Extreme events : observations, modeling, and economics

Publication Data

• Title Extreme events : observations, modeling, and economics
• Contributors Mario Chavez, Michael Ghil, Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi
• Publisher Wiley Blackwell
• Publication date 2015
• Publication location Chichester, West Sussex
• Language English

Contents

Contributors

Foreword: Mario Chavez, Michael Ghil, Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

Mario Chavez, Michael Ghil, Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi

Part A. Fundamentals and Theory

2. Applications of Extreme Value Theory to Environmental Data Analysis

Gwladys Toulemonde, Pierre Ribereau and Philippe Naveau

3. Dynamical Systems Approach to Extreme Events Catherine Nicolis and G. Nicolis

4. The Skill of Data Based Predictions Versus Dynamical Models - Case Study on Extreme

Temperature Anomalies

Stefan Siegert, Jochen Broecker, Holger Kantz

5. Detecting and Anticipating Climate Tipping Points Rates

Timothy M. Lenton and Valerie N. Livina

6. Understanding ENSO Variability and its Extrema: A Delay Differential Equation Approach

Michael Ghil and Ilya Zaliapin

Part B. Extreme Events in Earth’s Space Environment

7. Drivers of Extreme Space Weather Events: Fast Coronal Mass Ejections

A. Ruzmaikin, J. Feynman, and S. Stoev

8. Chicxulub Asteroid Impact: An Extreme Event at the Cretaceous/Paleogene Boundary

Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi and Ligia Pérez-Cruz

Part C. Climate and Weather Extremes

9. Weather and Climatic Drivers of Extreme Flooding Events Over the Midwest of the United States

Andrew W. Robertson, Yochanan Kushnir, Upmanu Lall, and Jennifer Nakamura

10. Analysis of the Hazards and Vulnerability of the Cancun Beach System: The Case of Hurricane Wilma

Edgar Mendoza, Rodolfo Silva, Cecilia Enriquez-Ortiz, Ismael Mariño-Tapia and Angélica Felix

11. Observations and Modeling of Environmental and Human Damage Caused by the

2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

Kazuhisa Goto, Fumihiko Imamura, Shunichi Koshimura, Hideaki Yanagisawa

12. Extreme Capillary Wave Events Under Parametric Excitation

M. G. Shats, H. Xia, and H. Punzmann

Part D. Extreme Events in the Solid Earth

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