Changes in Extreme Rainfall Events in South Africa

Models for Exceedances Over High Thresholds

A. C. Davison, Richard L. Smith · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) · 1990 · 1.7K citations

Meteorology, Generalized Pareto Distribution, Regression Data +15

Extreme events in a changing climate: Variability is more important than averages

Richard W. Katz, Barbara G. Brown · Climatic Change · 1992 · 1.4K citations

Climatology, Meteorology, Engineering +8

Statistical Field Significance and its Determination by Monte Carlo Techniques

Robert E. Livezey, W. Y. Chen · Monthly Weather Review · 1983 · 1.2K citations

Engineering, Monte Carlo Methods, Weather Forecasting +21

Trends in high-frequency climate variability in the twentieth century

Thomas R. Karl, Richard W. Knight, Neil Plummer · Nature · 1995 · 701 citations

Climatology, Future Climatic Change, Engineering +6

Extreme Value Analysis of Environmental Time Series: An Application to Trend Detection in Ground-Level Ozone

Richard L. Smith · Statistical Science · 1989 · 674 citations · Full text

Environmental Monitoring, Engineering, Air Quality +18