Contributed Papers

Statistical Applications for Climate and Environmental Data

Tue, Aug 5, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM Room CC-202C Music City Center

Xinyi LuChair

Section on Statistics and the Environment

7 Presentations

Characterizing property damage uncertainty to extreme events using copulas with changing dependence

10:35 AM - 10:50 AM

Co-authors: Lelys Isaura Bravo de Guenni (University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign), Gudi Atharv (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Lelys Isaura Bravo de Guenni (University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign), Muyuan Xu (Western University, Ontario, Canada)

Copulas Extreme weather events Property damage non-Gaussian dependence Tail dependence

Enhanced Quantile Delta Mapping for Bias Correction in Climate Modeling

10:50 AM - 11:05 AM

Co-authors: Bing-Ru Jhou (Institute of Statistics and Data Science, National Tsing Hua University), Nan-Jung Hsu (Institute of Statistics and Data Science, National Tsing Hua University), Bing-Ru Jhou (Institute of Statistics and Data Science, National Tsing Hua University), Hsin-Cheng Huang (Academia Sinica)

extreme precipitation generalized Pareto distribution

Forecasting extreme rainfall events of the USA

11:05 AM - 11:20 AM

Co-authors: Bhikhari Tharu (Spelman College), Bhikhari Tharu (Spelman College)

Extreme rainfall events LSTM Climatology

Leveraging forest inventory data to estimate forest carbon density status and trends for small areas

11:20 AM - 11:35 AM

Co-authors: Elliot Shannon, Andrew Finley (Michigan State University), Elliot Shannon, Paul May, Grant Domke (USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, St. Paul, MN, USA.), Hans-Erik Andersen (USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, WA, USA.), George Gaines, Arne Nothdurft (Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, A), Sudipto Banerjee (University of California Los Angeles)

National Forest Inventory Small Area Estimation Bayesian Spatio-temporal

Optimizing Low-Cost Sensor Deployment for Improved Indoor-Outdoor Air Quality Monitoring

11:35 AM - 11:50 AM

Co-authors: Mena Whalen (Loyola University Chicago), Mena Whalen (Loyola University Chicago), Tuyen Tran (Loyola University of Chicago Mathematics and Statistics)

Spatial Optimization Low-Cost Sensor Network Gaussian Process Environment

Reducing Future Extreme Climatology Surge-Rainfall Joint Hazards via Lowering Sea Level Rise

11:50 AM - 12:05 PM

Co-authors: Raymond Shao, Raymond Shao

Sea-Level Rise Joint Hazard Storm Surge Rainfall Tropical Cyclone (TC)Extreme Climatology

Using Z-Scores to Quantify Multiple Hurricane Hazards

12:05 PM - 12:20 PM

Co-authors: Lynne Seymour (University of Georgia), Lynne Seymour (University of Georgia)

z-score Chebyshev's rule Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale hurricane hazards