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- Title
A spatial model for return values of warm extremes in the high Arctic.
- Authors
Messori, G.; Wada, R.; Woods, C.
- Abstract
Wintertime warm extremes in the high Arctic, primarily associated with intrusions of moist airmasses from the midlatitudes, have occurred with an ostensibly high frequency in recent years. Here, we compute the temperature anomaly return values associated with such events for long return times. Our approach, which we term space‐time maxima–exposure (STM–E), improves on conventional extreme value estimates performed on a single‐location basis by explicitly taking into account the spatial structure of the moisture intrusions driving the temperature extremes. We specifically show that the STM–E approach provides spatially smoother return value estimates, a lower uncertainty in the parameters of the extreme value distribution fits and mitigates the single‐location underestimation of the magnitude of return values of temperature extremes.
- Subjects
ARCTIC regions; EXTREME value theory
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2020, Vol 146, Issue 733, p3865
- ISSN
0035-9009
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/qj.3877