Workshop on
Climate Change and Extreme Value Theory
May 11-13, 2009
EURANDOM & KNMI, The Netherlands|
Programme & Abstracts | Speakers | Registration | Practical Information | Interesting Links | Instruction for speakers
The earth's climate can be characterized by a number of parameters. E.g. annual regional averages of temperature and rainfall, distribution of rainfall over a year and average wind intensity and direction. These parameters clearly show variability, depending on the location and time.
It is very important to study the variation in these climate parameters over a longer period of time, especially trends that indicate non-stationarity of their behavior are of interest in order to attribute them to natural or anthropogenic causes. Studying possible causes for these trends, quantitative aspects of these trends and consequences for human, animal and plant life of these trends is important for reasons of safety, economy and quality of life for future generations.
Many researchers around the world work on aspects of climate change, e.g. people in climate studies, oceanography, mathematics, physics, economics etc. The stochastic methods used come from a broad range of subfields of stochastics, e.g. stochastic modelling, stochastic simulation, inverse problems, stochastic processes, extreme value statistics, curve estimation, time series analysis etc.
This workshop focuses on extreme value statistics in the context of climate change. Various excellent, internationally renowned researchers will give presentations. Mathematically oriented people from climate research who encounter problems related to extreme value theory will give talks on the background and special features of the problems they encounter. Also people from stochastics who work in extreme value theory (either on the applied or more theoretical side) will give presentations on their work.
PhD students and young researchers are invited to attend in particular.
The meeting will be held at both Eurandom (Technical University Eindhoven) and KNMI (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, de Bilt)
Anthony C. Davison,
Institute of Mathematics Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland
Gabriele C.
Hegerl,School of Geosciences University of Edinburgh, UK
Rolf-Dieter Reiss,
Universität Siegen, DE
Andreas Sterl, KNMI, NL
Albert Klein Tank,
Climate Research and Seismology,
KNMI, NL
Douglas W. Nychka, National
Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder, USA
Holger Rootzén, Department of
Statistics Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Richard L. Smith, Department of
Statistics and Operations Research University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
USA
David B. Stephenson,
Department of Mathematics, Exeter Climate Studies University of Exeter and
Hadley Centre, UK
May 11, 2009 (at EURANDOM):
09.45-10.15 Welcome & coffee/tea
10.20-10.30 Opening, O. Boxma, EURANDOM
Chair : G. Jongbloed,
TU Delft & EURANDOM
10.30-11.30 A. Klein Tank, KNMI
Guidelines on extremes in a changing climate
11.30-12.30 R. Smith, University of North Carolina
Extreme precipitation trends over the
United States
12.30-13.45 Lunch
13.45-14.15 Introduction of two concrete problems
14.15-15.15 D. Stephenson, University of Exeter and
Hadley Centre
Clustering of extreme windstorms in
Northern Europe
15.15-15.45 Break
15.45-16.45 H. Rootzén, Chalmers University of Technology
Extreme Value Statistics for
geosciences: The Block maxima vs the Peaks over Thresholds method; the
multivariate Generalized Pareto distribution; and mixture models for spatial
extremes
May 12, 2009 (at KNMI)
09.00 Bus tour to KNMI, departure from EURANDOM, Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven
09.15 Bus tour to KNMI, departure from Hotel Sandton Eindhoven City Centre,
Stratumsedijk 23, Eindhoven
10.45-11.00 Welcome with Coffee/tea
Chair : W. Hazeleger, KNMI
11.00-12.00 Andreas Sterl, KNMI
Hot temperatures and storm surges: Modelling the
change of climate extremes
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-13.45 Tour KNMI
13.45-14.30 Group discussions on concrete problems
14.30-15.00 Break
15.00-16.00 D. Nycka, National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder
The distribution of precipitation over
space from radar and models
16.00-17.00 G. Hegerl, School of Geosciences University of Edinburgh
Making Sense of Observed Trends in temperature
extremes
17:00-18:00 Discussion & Preparation for presentations
18.00 h.
Departure by bus to
Restaurant
"De Beerenkuil",
Biltsestraatweg 102
3573 PS Utrecht Tel.: 030-2719437
18.30-20.30 Dinner
20.45 Bus trip to back to Eindhoven (EURANDOM & Sandton Hotel Eindhoven City
Centre)
May 13, 2009 (at EURANDOM)
Chair : W. Hazeleger, KNMI
09.30-10.30 Rolf-Dieter Reiss, Universität
Siegen
Statistical Models for Exceedances
under Covariate Information
10:30-11:00 Break Coffee
11.00-11.30 Presentation group I (problem 1)
11.30-12.00 Presentation group II (problem 1)
12.00-12.30 Presentation group III (problem 2)
12.30-13.30 Lunch
Chair : G. Jongbloed,
TU Delft & EURANDOM
13.00-14.00 Presentation group IV (problem 2)
14.00-15.00 A. Davison, EPF Lausanne
Geostatistics of extremes
15.00-15.30 Closing W. Hazeleger, KNMI
15.30- Closing and drinks
Deadline for registration is April 17.
Note that the number of places is limited.
There is no registration fee.
PLEASE REGISTER by filling in the FORM
Conference Location and Travel
The workshop location on Monday May 11, 2009 and Wednesday May 13, 2009 is EURANDOM, Den Dolech 2, 5612 AZ Eindhoven, Laplace Building, 1st floor, LG 1.105.
EURANDOM is located on the campus of Eindhoven University of Technology, in the 'Laplacegebouw' building' (LG on the map). The university is located at 10 minutes walking distance from Eindhoven railway station (take the exit north side and walk towards the tall building on the right with the sign TU/e).
For information on how to come to Eindhoven, please check http://www.eurandom.tue.nl/contact.htm
On Tuesday may 12, 2009, see programme, the conference location is KNMI, Wilhelminalaan 10, 3732 GK De Bilt, Buys Ballot room.
For more information http://www.knmi.nl/contact/
Hotel
For private bookings we suggest you consult the web pages of the Tourist Information Eindhoven, Postbus 7, 5600 AA Eindhoven.
Lunches/dinner
May 11-12-13, lunches are being organised; these are free of costs for all participants, if ordered on the registration form.
May 12 there will be a conference dinner in De Bilt. For non-invitees an amount of 35 euro is requested, to be paid at arrival in cash (preferably exact amount in euros). Indicate your attendance on the registration form.
Invited talks will take 60 minutes, including discussion.
The conference room is equipped with a notebook (windows or UNIX), overhead projector, blackboard and beamer.
We recommend to bring your presentation on a USB stick.
Contact
For more information please contact Mrs. Lucienne Coolen, workshop officer of EURANDOM, at coolen 'at' eurandom.tue.nl
Dr. Wilco Hazeleger (KNMI)
Prof. Geurt Jongbloed (TU Delft & Eurandom)
Prof. Jef Teugels (KU Leuven & Eurandom)
Prof. Arnoldo Frigessi (University of Oslo)
INTERESTING LINKS
"Risk, Rare Events and Extremes", Research Programme at the Bernoulli Centre, Lausanne, 1 July - 31 December 2009, http://extremes.epfl.ch/
The journal Extremes (http://www.springerlink.com/content/102890/)
is planning a special issue on "Statistics of Extremes in Weather and
Climate". Please see an announcement at:
http://www.isse.ucar.edu/extremevalues/special.pdf
First submission deadline is February 2, 2009.
The Organizers would like to acknowledge the following organizations for their contributions
