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Taha B. M. J. Ouarda
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Open AccessCompounded wind gusts and maximum temperature via semiparametric copula in the risk assessments of power blackouts and air conditioning demands for major cities in Canada
A semiparametric copula joint framework was proposed to model wind gust speed (WGS) and maximum temperature (MT) in Canada, using Gaussian kernel density estimation (GKDE) with parametric copulas. Their joint ...
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Open AccessShort-lead seasonal precipitation forecast in northeastern Brazil using an ensemble of artificial neural networks
This study assesses the deterministic and probabilistic forecasting skill of a 1-month-lead ensemble of Artificial Neural Networks (EANN) based on low-frequency climate oscillation indices. The predictand is t...
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Open AccessStationary and non-stationary temperature-duration-frequency curves for Australia
Australian summer heat events have become more frequent and severe in recent times. Temperature-duration-frequency (TDF) curves connect the severity of heat episodes of various durations to their frequencies a...
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Open AccessCompound heatwave and drought hotspots and their trends in Southeast Australia
Compound extreme natural events cause a significantly larger impact than individual extreme events. Therefore, the urgency of exploring the climatology of compound events is growing. This paper is aimed to ide...
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Characterizing and forecasting climate indices using time series models
The objective of the current study is to present a comparison of techniques for the forecasting of low-frequency climate oscillation indices with a focus on the Great Lakes system. A number of time series mode...
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Trends in Annual Maximum Flood Data in New South Wales Australia
In terms of economic damage, flood is the number one natural disaster in Australia. Extremes of floods and droughts are becoming more frequent now-a-days in Australia. Impact of climate change and anthropogeni...
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Prediction of Coastal Water Temperature Using Statistical Models
Water temperature plays an important role in the equilibrium of the aquatic system and the overall health of aquaculture biota. Two machine learning models (random forests and artificial neural network) and re...
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Open AccessPeaks-over-threshold model in flood frequency analysis: a sco** review
In flood frequency analysis (FFA), annual maximum (AM) model is widely adopted in practice due to its straightforward sampling process. However, AM model has been criticized for its limited flexibility. FFA us...
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Correction to: Modeling directional distributions of wind data in the United Arab Emirates at different elevations
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-021-07720-0
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Open AccessA heat-health watch and warning system with extended season and evolving thresholds
Many countries have developed heat-health watch and warning systems (HHWWS) or early-warning systems to mitigate the health consequences of extreme heat events. HHWWS usually focuses on the four hottest months...
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Climate teleconnections, interannual variability, and evolution of the rainfall regime in a tropical Caribbean island: case study of Barbados
A limited number of studies have focused on the hydroclimate dynamics of tropical Caribbean islands. The present study aims to analyze the rainfall regime in Barbados. CHIRPS gridded dataset, at a resolution o...
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Open AccessModeling directional distributions of wind data in the United Arab Emirates at different elevations
Modeling wind speed and direction are crucial in several applications such as the estimation of wind energy potential and the study of the long-term effects on engineering structures. While there have been sev...
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Long-term forecasting of wind speed in the UAE using nonlinear canonical correlation analysis (NLCCA)
Wind is one of the crucial renewable energy sources which is expected to bring solutions to the challenges of clean energy and the global issue of climate change. Several linear and nonlinear multivariate tech...
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Machine Learning and Water Economy: a New Approach to Predicting Dams Water Sales Revenue
The proper prediction of water sales revenue allows for pricing policies with a specified trend for the optimized use of water resources. The present work focuses on the prediction of the economic status of wa...
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Nonstationary warm spell frequency analysis integrating climate variability and change with application to the Middle East
The Middle East can experience extended wintertime spells of exceptionally hot weather, which can result in prolonged droughts and have major impacts on the already scarce water resources of the region. Recent...
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Open AccessChanges in the distribution of hydro-climatic extremes in a non-stationary framework
Hydro-climatic extremes are influenced by climate change and climate variability associated to large-scale oscillations. Non-stationary frequency models integrate trends and climate variability by introducing ...
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Open AccessNonstationary Temperature-Duration-Frequency curves
Persistent extreme heat events are of growing concern in a climate change context. An increase in the intensity, frequency and duration of heat waves is observed in several regions. Temperature extremes are al...
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Open AccessA new look at weather-related health impacts through functional regression
A major challenge of climate change adaptation is to assess the effect of changing weather on human health. In spite of an increasing literature on the weather-related health subject, many aspect of the relati...
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Conditional stochastic simulation model for spatial downscaling for assessing the effects of climate change on hydro-meteorological variables
The current study examines the recently proposed “bias correction and stochastic analogues” (BCSA) statistical spatial downscaling technique and attempts to improve it by conditioning coarse resolution data wh...
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Impact of river network type on the time of concentration
Time of concentration (T c) is one of the frequently used parameters to characterize the response of a drainage basin to a rainfall event. Conceptually, it is the time runoff travels from the hydr...
