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Extreme events: dynamics, statistics and prediction
1Environmental Research and Teaching Institute (CERES-ERTI), Geosciences Department and Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (CNRS and IPSL), UMR8539, CNRS-Ecole Normale Supérieure, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
2Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences and Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
3Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, UMR8212, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, CE-Saclay l'Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
4Centre International pour la Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement, Nogent-sur-Marne, France
5Météo-France, Toulouse, France
6Department of Geography, King's College London, London, UK
7International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
8Meteorological Institute, University Bonn, Bonn, Germany
9Department of Earth & Space Sciences and Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
10Institut Royal de Météorologie, Brussels, Belgium
11Department of Nonlinear Dynamics, Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
12Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA
Abstract. We review work on extreme events, their causes and consequences, by a group of European and American researchers involved in a three-year project on these topics. The review covers theoretical aspects of time series analysis and of extreme value theory, as well as of the deterministic modeling of extreme events, via continuous and discrete dynamic models. The applications include climatic, seismic and socio-economic events, along with their prediction.
Two important results refer to (i) the complementarity of spectral analysis of a time series in terms of the continuous and the discrete part of its power spectrum; and (ii) the need for coupled modeling of natural and socio-economic systems. Both these results have implications for the study and prediction of natural hazards and their human impacts.
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Citation: Ghil, M., Yiou, P., Hallegatte, S., Malamud, B. D., Naveau, P., Soloviev, A., Friederichs, P., Keilis-Borok, V., Kondrashov, D., Kossobokov, V., Mestre, O., Nicolis, C., Rust, H. W., Shebalin, P., Vrac, M., Witt, A., and Zaliapin, I.: Extreme events: dynamics, statistics and prediction, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 18, 295-350, doi:10.5194/npg-18-295-2011, 2011. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
