Introduction
Fact sheets
Introduction
A – Statistical concepts on extremes
1
Series, seasonality, mean and dispersion
2
What is an extreme
3
Extremes, non-stationarity and climate change
4
Detecting trends in series of extremes
5
The probabilistic representation of extremes
6
Trend analysis
7
The statistical distribution of extreme values and the Gumbel distribution
8
The peaks-over-threshold (POT) approach
B – The climate change adaptation process
9
The climate change adaptation process
10
Objectives, scope and context of the adaptation process
11
Assessing climate risks
12
Climate risk management
13
The concept of risk and risk matrices
14
Example of an adaptation process for pluvial floods
C – River and urban hydrology and climate change
15
Floods, high water levels and climate change: An overview
16
The Hydroclimatic Atlas of Southern Québec
17
Stormwater management and climate change
18
References
Table of contents
Introduction
Fact sheets
Introduction
The fact sheets proposed here accompany the climate risk analysis application.
1
Series, seasonality, mean and dispersion