Sentence examples for extreme index from inspiring English sources

The fact that no trends were detected in terms of extreme values of precipitation on a daily scale, nor on the associated ETCCDI (Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices) extreme index, could point to an increase in vulnerability, an increase in exposure, or changes in land use.

For the most extreme index of stability considered here (α=1.0) the mean squared error under Brownian motion reconstruction was from 4.8 to 100 times higher, and under Ornstein-Uhlenbeck reconstruction from 5.9 to 100 times higher, than the mean squared error under stable reconstruction.

The characteristics of Xinjiang meteorological disasters were analyzed using extreme indices and the PDSI.

Table 4 presents the linear air temperature extreme indices for Azraq and Al Safawi stations with p value for each index.

Figure 9 draws the CvM and KS index of Pair-Copula model and Gaussian temporal model for 17 wind farms in Vermont, where the box shows the median, 25%and75%5% percentiles of the indices, while the whiskers are the extreme indices.

The noteworthy feature of this study is the observed climate uncertainty in terms of large variability in the extreme indices since the 1990s, consistent with the warming induced intensification of the hydrological cycle.

Analysing the selected WMO-CCL/CLIVAR extreme indices [ 44] for all summer days in the 20-year time periods (Table  2) it can be concluded, that under enhanced greenhouse gas conditions the number of dry days may increase.

HOW did 2012 rank for the United States in terms of the Climate Extremes Index?

On top of all that, the Climate Extremes Index omits some types of weather one would really want to see, like tornadoes.

The government does publish a Climate Extremes Index, and some readers might find it interesting to play around with the index on the National Climatic Data Center Web site, where you can pick different variables to chart.

In addition to being the nation's warmest year, 2012 turned out to be the second-worst on a measure called the Climate Extremes Index, surpassed only by 1998.