Includes bibliographical references and index.

Statistical indices for diagnosing and detecting changes in extremes / Xuebin Zhang and Francis W. Zwiers -- Statistical methods for nonstationary extremes / Richard W. Katz -- Bayesian methods for nonstationary extreme value analysis / Benjamin Renard, Xun Sun, and Michel Lang -- Return periods and return levels under climate change / Daniel Cooley -- Multivariate extreme value methods / Gianfausto Salvadori and Carlo De Michele -- Methods of tail dependence estimation / Amir AghaKouchak, Scott Sellars, and Soroosh Sorooshian -- Stochastic models of climate extremes : theory and observations / Philip Sura -- Methods of projecting future changes in extremes / Michael Wehner -- Climate variability and weather extremes : model-simulated and historical data / Siegfried D. Schubert and Young-Kwon Lim -- Uncertainties in observed changes in climate extremes / Kenneth E. Kunkel -- Uncertainties in projections of future changes in extremes / Levi D. brekke and Joseph J. Barsugli -- Global data sets for analysis of climate extremes / David R. Easterling -- Nonstationarity in extremes and engineering design / Dörte Jakob.

'Extremes in a Changing Climate' presents both theoretical concepts and methodologies for detecting extremes, trend analysis, accounting for nonstationarities and uncertainties associated with extreme value analysis in a changing climate. The volume includes several climate case studies.--