92nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (January 22-26, 2012)

Session 4 Extreme Events in Weather, Water, and Climate

Tuesday, 24 January 2012: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Room 238 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Host: 21st Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences
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Cochairs:  E. Gilleland, NCAR and Adam H. Monahan, University of Victoria
Papers:
  1:30 PM
4.1
US Landfalling Hurricanes and Economic Damage: An Extreme Value Perspective
Daniel R. Chavas, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and E. Yonekura, C. Karamperidou, N. Cavanaugh, and K. Serafin
Recorded Presentation

  1:45 PM
4.2
Evidence for Clustering of Temperatures At High Levels Based on Extreme Value Theory
Richard W. Katz, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

Poster PDF (803.1 kB)

  2:00 PM
4.3
On the Predictability of Extreme Temperatures on Medium to Sub-Seasonal Time Scales
Violeta E. Toma, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and J. I. Belanger, M. T. Jelinek, B. D. Campbell, P. Webster, and J. Curry
Recorded Presentation

  2:15 PM
4.4
Investigating Drivers of European Hot Spells Using Extreme Value Analysis
David J. Keellings, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and M. Jones, C. Dewes, and C. Photiadou
Recorded Presentation

  2:30 PM
4.5
A General Perspective of Extreme Events in Weather and Climate
Philip Sura, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

  2:45 PM
4.6
Need for Caution in Interpreting Extreme Weather Statistics
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES/CDC and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and G. P. Compo and C. Penland

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