[Narccap-topic-extremes] NARCCAP Extremes - What are you doing?

[Hess, Jeremy]

Thanks Bill.

I'm doing some work at CDC on extreme heat events looking retrospectively at a dataset abstracted out from NCDC's data for approximately 100 cities across the US, extrapolating out temperature trends and projecting them forward, and then generating scenarios of extreme heat events for preparedness planning.  It's intentionally relatively low tech, though we will be using some novel approaches based on extreme value theory to generate the estimates of extremes from the projected point estimates.  If anyone has expertise in this area I would love to touch base.  We will also be comparing our (low-tech) estimates with regional downscaled projections for extreme heat events, and I'd like to talk with anyone doing that, as well.

Thanks,

Jeremy Hess, MD, MPH
Senior Medical Advisor, Climate and Health Program, DEHHE, NCEH, CDC

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Subject: [Narccap-topic-extremes] NARCCAP Extremes - What are you doing?

Dear NARCCAP "Extremers":
It would also be good to get an overview list for our pod of what people are doing with extremes.  If you are simply interested in the topic, and just want to follow discussions, that's fine.  However, for those of you doing research with extremes, let's see what we all are doing.  So - what is your extremes-related research?
Here at Iowa State, we have been looking primarily at daily precipitation extremes and the causal processes in both observations and the NARCCAP (and other simulations).  We have also looked at monthly precipitation extremes in the NARCCAP simulations and, in other work, are looking at daily temperature extremes.

Bill Gutowski

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