From deadly floods in Nigeria to devastating drought in Somalia, Africa has faced a run of severe – and sometimes unprecedented – extreme weather events since the start of 2022. But while the US ...

Extreme value analysis deals with the statistical modelling of rare or extreme observations drawn from complex systems. It encompasses two principal frameworks: the block maxima approach, where maxima ...

A critical federal analysis of extreme rainfall is vastly underestimating the chances of flood events, with grave implications for everything from new roads and bridges to the rising cost of flood ...

Nonstationary extreme value analysis addresses the reality that the statistical properties of hydrological extremes evolve over time under the influence of climate change, land-use alterations and ...