On spatial extremes: With application to a rainfall problem
Authors:
- L. de HaanLHL. de Haan
- C. ZhouCZC. Zhou
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- 1 June 2008
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Mathematical Statistics in The Annals of Applied Statistics
- Vol. 2 (2) , 624-642
Abstract
We consider daily rainfall observations at 32 stations in the province of North Holland (the Netherlands) during 30 years. Let T be the total rainfall in this area on one day. An important question is: what is the amount of rainfall T that is exceeded once in 100 years? This is clearly a problem belonging to extreme value theory. Also, it is a genuinely spatial problem. Recently, a theory of extremes of continuous stochastic processes has been developed. Using the ideas of that theory and much computer power (simulations), we have been able to come up with a reasonable answer to the question above.Keywords
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